Recent articles for private investors with a focus on dividend announcements
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Royal Dutch Shell increases 2013 Q1 dividend by 4.6%
Royal Dutch Shell's first quarter 2013 earnings, on a current cost of supplies (CCS) basis (see Note 1), were $8.0 billion compared with $7.7 billion for the first quarter 2012. * First quarter 2013 CCS earnings excluding identified items (see page 6) were $7.5 billion compared with $7.3 billion for the first quarter 2012, an increase of 3%. * Basic CCS earnings per share excluding identified items for the first quarter 2013 increased by 2% versus the same quarter a year ago. * Cash flow from operating activities for the first quarter 2013 was $11.6 billion. Excluding working capital movements, cash flow from operating activities for the first quarter 2013 was $11.5 billion. * Capital investment for the first quarter 2013 was $8.8 billion. Net capital investment (see Note 1) for the quarter was $8.2 billion. * Total dividends distributed in the quarter were some $2.7 billion, of which $0.8 billion were settled under the Scrip Dividend Programme. During the first quarter some 16.1 million shares were bought back for cancellation for a consideration of some $0.5 billion. * Gearing at the end of the first quarter 2013 was 9.1%. * A first quarter 2013 dividend has been announced of $0.45 per ordinary share and $0.90 per American Depositary Share ("ADS"), an increase of 5% compared with the first quarter 2012. * Comparative information in this Report has been restated following the adoption of revised IAS 19 Employee Benefits on January 1, 2013, with retrospective effect (see Note 2). Comparative information was not restated for other accounting policy changes (see Note 1) for which the impacts are not significant, including the adoption of IFRS 11 Joint Arrangements on January 1, 2013, which results in certain previously equity-accounted entities now in effect being proportionately consolidated.
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BP maintains 2015 Q1 dividend in line with Q4 2014
BP's first-quarter replacement cost (RC) profit was $16,596 million, compared with $4,781 million for the same period in 2012. After adjusting for a net gain from non-operating items of $12,424 million and net unfavourable fair value accounting effects of $43 million (both on a post-tax basis), underlying RC profit for the first quarter was $4,215 million, compared with $4,651 million for the same period in 2012. RC profit or loss for the group, underlying RC profit or loss and fair value accounting effects are non-GAAP measures and further information is provided on pages 2, 17 and 19.
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23 Apr 2013
Dividend of the week - Carillion
This week we are going to use the DividendMax optimizer to pick out our dividend of the week. Our critieria is to pick all stocks in the FTSE 350 with an annualised dividend yield of over 9%. The resulting list is First Group, Man group, ICAP, Petropavlovsk, Tullet Prebon, African Barrick Gold, Admiral Group, Carillion, UK commercial property trust, Phoenix Group, Balfour Beatty, Halfords and Resolution. Surprising to see Resolution still in there as it went ex-dividend last week. However as a previous dividend of the week it will be discounted. As will Man Group, First Group, ICAP and Admiral for the same reason. I don't fancy the UK commercial property trust as I don't know much about their business.
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