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Centrica CEO Iain Conn will step down next year after the company cut its dividend and announced plans to exit its oil and gas business, sending its shares to a 21-year low. Centrica has been ...
LONDON -- In an outcome that's tough on investors, the FTSE 100 has failed to deliver a rising dividend payout over the last few years. Just look at the iShares FTSE 100 ETF, for example. This is ...
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Image source: Getty Images. 1. Altria. Tobacco titan Altria (NYSE: MO) has long been a solid dividend-paying company. It remains one today -- and it's offering a fat dividend yield, recently 7.8% ...
LONDON -- Murray Income Trust has a 29 year record of unbroken dividend growth. The trust lifted its dividend by 3.5% in 2012, and at a share price of 790 pence, the trailing 12-month yield is 4.3%.
A dividend reinvestment program or dividend reinvestment plan (DRIP) is an equity investment option offered directly from the underlying company. The investor does not receive dividends directly as cash; instead, the investor's dividends are directly reinvested in the underlying equity.
In November 2011, Centrica agreed to buy $1.6 billion stakes of eight fields on the Norwegian continental shelf from Statoil ASA. In a second deal, Centrica agreed to buy five billion cubic meters a year gas from the same company from 2015 to 2025 as equal to 5% of gas consumption in the United Kingdom. [ 37 ]
A dividend recapitalization (often referred to as a dividend recap) in finance is a type of leveraged recapitalization in which a payment is made to shareholders. As opposed to a typical dividend which is paid regularly from the company's earnings, a dividend recapitalization occurs when a company raises debt —e.g. by issuing bonds to fund ...