Recent articles for private investors with a focus on dividend announcements
Pennon Group increases its 2017 interim dividend by 6%
Underlying earnings are presented to provide a more useful comparison on business trends and performance. Non-underlying items are adjusted for by virtue of their size, nature or incidence to enable a full understanding of the Group's financial performance
Paypoint increases its 2016 interim dividend by 5.6% and pays a special
Progress in strategic priorities Delivering against our strategy of refocussing PayPoint on our retailers:o Following successful commercial trials, PayPoint One and Core EPoS were launched in Septembero Retail services including investment in rollout and support for PayPoint One and Core EPoS, increasing in the second half MultiPay transactions (3 million), up 38.1%; 14 clients contracted. SSE live ahead of customer rollout in 2017 Collect+ discussions with Yodel and Mobile sale process both progressing
Halma increases its 2017 Interim dividend by 7%
The Board has declared an increase of 7% in the interim dividend to 5.33p per share (2015/16: 4.98p per share). The interim dividend will be paid on 8 February 2017 to shareholders on the register on 30 December 2016. For the past 37 years we have increased our full year dividend by 5% or more each year.
Homeserve increases its 2017 interim dividend by 8%
Customer numbers up 2% in the UK to 2.2m with further development in our gas capability
Dart Group increases its 2017 interim dividend by 53%
A strong summer season saw Group revenue increase 21% to £1,240.8m (2015: £1,024.0m) whilst Group operating profit, which was underpinned by continued growth in our Leisure Travel business, increased 14% to £167.5m (2015: £147.1m). * Profit before tax grew 12% to £163.7m (2015: £146.8m). The Group's Interim dividend per share will increase by 53% to 1.375p (2015: 0.900p). Leisure Travel revenue growth of 22% to £1,160.8m (2015: £951.7m) reflects a 36% increase in the number of Jet2holidays package holiday customers to 1.28m (2015: 0.94m), representing 50% of overall flown customers (2015: 42%). Jet2.com also flew 2.51m flight-only passenger sectors (2015: 2.65m) during the period. * Though airline ticket yields and average load factors were slightly lower than those achieved in last year's summer season, this is against a backdrop of a 13% increase in seat capacity.
TalkTalk maintains its 2017 interim dividend
Strong growth in H1 profits: EBITDA £130m (+44% year-on-year); interim dividend 5.29p
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