Recent articles for private investors with a focus on dividend announcements
Compass Group increases its 2014 full year dividend by 10.5%
Focus on organic growth and efficiencies delivers another strong performance
United Utilities increases its 2015 interim dividend by 4.5%
Operational improvements delivering benefits for customers
HICL infrastructure 2015 interim results
Interim dividends plus uplift in NAV per share contributed to total shareholder return of 9.0% in the six month period.
Halma increases its 2015 interim dividend by 7%
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Growth with higher returns: adjusted pre-tax profit up 6%, revenue up 2%, with adverse currency translation impact of 5% on revenue and profit. Return on Sales4 increased to 20.2%.
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Organic constant currency revenue growth in all regions. Good performance in the USA; steady progress in the UK, Asia Pacific and Europe.
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Strong profit growth maintained in Process Safety, Infrastructure Safety and Medical. Lower profit in Environmental & Analysis with improvement expected in the second half of the year.
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£87m net cash spend on three acquisitions. Acquisition pipeline remains healthy. One disposal completed at a small gain.
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Strong cash flow and significant financial capacity for investment in organic growth and value-adding acquisitions. Net debt of £136m (March 2014: £74m).
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Interim dividend up 7% to 4.65p.
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New Executive Board structure operating well, with an initial focus on sector growth strategies and development of management talent.
Homeserve maintains its 2015 interim dividend at 3.63%
The UK business ended the period with 2.1m customers (HY14: 2.2m)
British Land increases its 2014 Q2 dividend by 2.5%
Chris Grigg, Chief Executive said: "This has been another good six months for British Land with strong results from both parts of our business. Our continued outperformance underlines the success of our actions: increasing our business in London; progressing our major development programme; evolving our retail offer; and buying and selling well. Looking forward, we remain confident about the outlook for the business. The economy is growing, interest rates are likely to stay low for some time and investor demand for quality properties in and outside London is strong. Demand for offices in London is improving, supply remains constrained and rental growth now looks firmly established. In retail, economic growth is feeding through to consumer spend and the lead indicators of rental growth in our business are all positive."
Easyjet increases its 2014 final dividend by 35.5%
Drive demand, conversion and yields across Europe
Mitie increases its 2015 interim dividend by 6%
Headline revenue growth of 4.8%, of which 3.9% was organic
London Stock Exchange increases its 2015 interim dividend by 4.3%
Strong financial performance - revenue growth across each of the Group's business areas
Great Portland increases its 2015 interim dividend by 2.9%
Continued strong growth in both capital and rental values
Burberry increases its 2015 interim dividend by 10%
Burberry posts strong first half results with revenue up 14% underlying to £1.1bn
Talk Talk increases its 2015 interim dividend by 15%
Strong year-on-year growth in revenue (+3.3%), EBITDA (+44.7%) and Operating FCF (+120%)
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