Recent articles for private investors with a focus on dividend announcements

Cobham increases its 2015 interim dividend by 5%
Significant impact from Aeroflex on half year results; acquisition on track

London Stock Exchange increases its 2015 interim dividend by 11%
Continued delivery of strategy - good financial performance driven by contribution from Russell as well as from underlying growth in Capital Markets, Information Services, OTC clearing at LCH.Clearnet and Italian Post Trade operations

Novae increases its 2015 interim dividend by 10.6%
Novae Group plc ("Novae" or "the Group"), the specialist insurance group, today announces its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2015.

Standard Life increases its 2015 interim dividend by 7.5%
Focus on fee business driving growth and performance

Meggitt increases its 2015 interim dividend by 8%
Good organic revenue growth in civil aerospace (+5%) and military (+6%), partially offset by organic decline in energy (-18%).

Ultra Electronics increases its 2015 interim dividend by 4.5%
First half performance in line with our expectations

Fidessa maintains its 2015 interim dividend at last years level
Highlights for the period ended 30th June 2015:

Alent 2015 interim results
Growth in NSV of 1.9% on a reported basis (0.5% on a constant currency basis), reflecting end-market headwinds

Lloyds Banking group pays 0.75p 2015 interim dividend
Improvement in underlying and statutory profit with balance sheet further strengthened

BG Group 2015 Interim results
E&P production up 19% at 703 kboed; full year guidance moved to the upper half of 650 - 690 kboed range

Laird increases its 2015 interim dividend by 3%
Good first half performance in line with expectations

Countrywide maintains its 2015 interim dividend at last years level
Group income grew to £338.6 million, however, a difficult UK housing market led to £41.0 million of EBITDA versus £45.0 million in the same period last year

Millenium and Copthorn maintains its 2015 interim dividend
Group RevPAR grew by 4.0% to £68.28. In constant currency, RevPAR increased by 0.8% from £67.75 to £68.28. Average room rate increased by 2.7% to £96.61 (H1 2014: £94.10) and occupancy fell by 1.2 percentage points to 70.7% (H1 2014: 71.9%).
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