In light of the impact of Mission Group's weaker financial performance, future investment priorities and maintaining balance sheet strength, the company has made the decision to continue to pause dividend payments. They are aiming to return to paying ordinary dividends as soon as possible and will maintain three to four times dividend cover. We will next consider our dividend policy at the time of our interim report.
Dividend
The company has historically adopted a progressive dividend policy, aiming to grow dividends each year in line with earnings but always balancing the desire to reward shareholders via dividends with the need to fund the Group's growth ambitions and maintain a strong balance sheet and healthy distributable reserves (2025: £32.8m, 2024: £30.5m).
They have made the decision to continue to pause dividend payments in light of the impact of the company’s weaker financial performance, future investment priorities and maintaining balance sheet strength and expects to return to paying ordinary dividends as soon as possible.
In so doing it plans to maintain dividend cover between 3x to 4x headline earnings per share.
