Recent articles for private investors with a focus on dividend announcements
Tui Travel delivers extra dividend as a result of merger with TUI AG
Peter Long, Chief Executive of TUI Travel PLC, commented:
Betfair increases its 2015 interim dividend by 50% and announces £200 million return to shareholders
Financial highlights
Greene King increases its 2015 interim dividend by 4.6%
Record sales; retained business growth of 5.3%.
Sage increases its 2014 full year dividend by 7.1%
On track to deliver the 2015 financial targets of 6% organic revenue growth and 28% operating profit margin
Shaftesbury increases its 2014 full year dividend by 5.6%
Growth in NAV, income, earnings and dividend
Daejan Holdings maintains its 2015 interim dividend
The profit before tax for the period was £134.5 million (2013: £76.5 million) after accounting for the net valuation gain on investment properties of £107.9 million (2013: £47.7 million) and fair value losses on financial instruments of £0.6 million (2013: £8.5 million gains). There was an increase of £10.6 million (21.6%) in gross rental income and the underlying net profit before tax, i.e. excluding net valuation movements, was £27.3 million (2013: £20.4 million). Gross rental income and underlying profit before tax both benefited from the one-off impact of the settlement of a significant contested rent review, referred to below.
Daily Mail & General Trust increases its full year dividend by 6%
Preliminary Full Year Financial Highlights:
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."
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