Finally, Wal-Mart has paid and raised its cash dividend every year since inception in 1974.
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It started paying a regular cash dividend from the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009.
The Board of Directors has recommended a cash dividend of RMB 2 (including tax) for every 10 shares.
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That pushes the effective U.S.-only cash dividend payout ratio to close to 50%.
If you don't log all the figures you may not benefit from the tax relief on cash dividend payments.
Elan plans to use 20 percent of the sales it receives from this agreement to pay shareholders a cash dividend.
In connection with that plan, the company intends to pay a quarterly cash dividend targeting a yield of about 2.5%.
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Meanwhile, on Wednesday Applied Materials announced its board of directors approved a quarterly cash dividend of 7 cents per share.
For the stock market, returning to equilibrium could mean a cash dividend yield of around 4%, the average over 80 years.
The cash dividend payout ratio is particularly useful for evaluating the staying power of dividends from companies undergoing massive business model overhauls.
Both Frontier Communications ( FTR) and Alaska Communications Systems ( ALSK) cut their dividends after their cash dividend payout ratios rose above one.
The company also announced a third quarter cash dividend of 10 cents per common share which will be available to shareholders until Aug 30.
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In the end, most shareholder lawsuits result in a court-ordered, retroactive cash dividend to former shareholders, paid by the unlucky current owners of the firm.
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Or the cash dividend payout ratio against a popular utility dividend.
This is where the cash dividend payout ratio comes in handy.
Abbott currently has a healthy dividend yield of 3.7% and according to its Web site it has provided its shareholders uninterrupted cash dividend payments since 1924.
Mattel also declared a cash dividend of 23 cents per share for the third quarter, payable Sept. 23 to shareholders of record as of Aug. 31.
Given the huge risks Merck is facing, it may be time for the company to consider giving even more money back to investors as a cash dividend.
Having maxxed out on growth and technology investors, the only remaining large, new purchasers of Apple stock are value investors who want to see a cash dividend.
Keenan has set himself two guidelines: The issuer can't take its money out in a cash dividend or add debt senior to BlackRock's, without permission from the bondholders.
So gung-ho is Viacom that CEO Philippe Dauman revealed today that its enormous free cash flow will support both accelerated share buybacks and an increased cash dividend.
Notwithstanding all the man is doing to westernize his finances--with a PricewaterhouseCoopers audit, a cash dividend and an ADR--investors still apply a transparency discount to the whole Russian market.
Strong capital position and cash flows have enabled the company to maintain a cash dividend payout ratio of an average of 57% of net income for years 2003 through 2012.
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More than 70% of that amount was returned to shareholders through share buybacks and a new cash dividend with the remaining 30% reinvested in the business through acquisitions and internal projects.
Despite some public pressure for the first BRK cash dividend, Buffett is reluctant as he and other large longtime shareholders have no interest in either the income or the taxes that would be due.
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That General Mills managed such robust dividend payouts without putting upward pressure on the dividend payout ratio (the percentage of profits the dividend represents) and the cash dividend payout ratio (the proportion of free cash flow that goes to dividend payouts) is good evidence that its dividend gravy train is in great shape.
Generally, though, the main thing wrong with these companies is that they are out of favor with investors who are quite happy to pay 20 times earnings, and 50 times the cash dividend (2% yield) for a company whose long-term prospects may not be materially different than a company trading at 10 times earnings and 20 times the dividend (5% yield).
Notice on the dividend cash flow table that the dividend yield for calendar year 2000 was 6.1%.
That usually works at healthy companies because they tend to use earnings to generate cash for dividend payments.
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