Recent articles for private investors with a focus on dividend announcements
St James's place increases its 2015 interim dividend by 20%
New Investment and Funds under Management
Pace passes on its 2015 interim dividend due to Arris merger
Solid H1 2015: Gross margin up 1.6ppt to 23.2%, operating margin up 1.6ppt to 10.9% and adjusted basic EPS up 11.4% to 28.4c. Strong H2 2015 anticipated and the proposed combination with ARRIS Group is progressing in-line with expectations.
BP maintains its 2015 Q2 dividend in $ terms at 10 cents
BP's second-quarter replacement cost (RC) loss was $6,266 million, compared with a profit of $3,182 million a year ago. After adjusting for a net charge for non-operating items of $7,486 million, mainly relating to the recently announced agreements in principle to settle federal, state and the vast majority of local government claims arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident, and net unfavourable fair value accounting effects of $93 million (both on a post-tax basis), underlying RC profit for the second quarter was $1,313 million, compared with $3,635 million for the same period in 2014. For the half year, RC loss was $4,163 million, compared with a profit of $6,657 million a year ago. After adjusting for a net charge for non-operating items of $7,899 million and net unfavourable fair value accounting effects of $154 million (both on a post-tax basis), underlying RC profit for the half year was $3,890 million, compared with $6,860 million for the same period in 2014. Non-operating items include a restructuring charge of $272 million for the quarter and $487 million for the half year. Restructuring charges are now expected to be around $1.5 billion by the end of 2015 relative to the $1 billion we announced back in December. 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 3 and 30.
Segro increases its 2015 interim dividend by 2%
IFRS profit before tax increased to £330.0 million (H1 2014: £226.5 million) and Adjusted profit before tax1 increased to £69.2 million (H1 2014: £66.7 million).
Dialight cuts its 2015 interim dividend
Lighting revenue increased 24% (17% at constant currency) to £53.4m (H1 2014: £43.0m)
Senior increases its 2015 interim dividend by 10%
Interim Results for the half-year ended 30 June 2015
Hammerson increases its 2015 interim dividend by 8%
Operational highlights - consistent income generation
Beazley increases its 2015 interim dividend by 6.45%
Beazley plc results for period ended 30 June 2015
Anglo American maintains its 2015 interim dividend
Improved operational performance and accelerated cost and capex reductions to mitigate price weakness
Howdens Joinery increases its 2015 interim dividend by 47%
Financial results (continuing operations)
Possible effects of the tax treatment of dividends from April 2016
The Telegraph online declared ‘Budget 2015 – Investors face tax raid on dividends’. Whilst this is true for those with large income portfolios, not everybody loses out and in fact those who do not currently invest in stocks and shares, there is now a tax incentive to do so.
GVC Holdings 2015 Q1 dividend
GVC Holdings PLC (AIM:GVC), the multinational sports betting and gaming group, today announces a positive trading update for the six months to 30 June 2015, along with announcing a quarterly dividend of 14.0€cents per share. The dividend will be payable on Monday 17 August 2014 to shareholders on the register on Friday 24 July 2014, and the shares will go ex-dividend on Thursday 23 July 2014.
Daejan Holdings increases its 2015 full year dividend by 7.3%
The Chairman, Mr B S E Freshwater, today announced Preliminary Results for the year to 31 March 2015.
Low & Bonar increases its 2015 interim dividend by 3.2%
6 months to
31 May
12 months
to 30 Nov
2015
2014
Actual
Constant Currency
2014
Revenue
£186.0m
£196.3m
(5.2)%
0.9%
£410.6m
Operating margin
6.8%
5.9%
7.7%
PBTA
£9.7m
£8.6m
12.8%
19.8%
£25.2m
Profit before taxation (statutory)
£7.4m
£5.2m
42.3%
£16.7m
Basic EPS
2.04p
1.86p
9.7%
16.6%
5.46p
Dividend per share
0.98p
0.95p
3.2%
2.70p
ROCE
11.8%
11.4%
11.4%
Greene King increases its 2015 full year dividend by 4.8%
Total group
F15 (52w)
F14 (53w)
Change
Change (52w basis)
Total revenue
£1,315.3m
£1,301.6m
+1.1%
+3.0%
Operating profit
£256.2m
£265.6m
-3.5%
-1.7%
Profit before tax
£168.5m
£173.1m
-2.7%
-0.8%
Statutory profit before tax
£118.2m
£105.2m
+12.4%
+14.5%
Adjusted basic earnings per share
61.0p
61.4p
-0.7%
+1.3%
Statutory basic earnings per share
40.9p
44.2p
-7.5%
-5.7%
Dividend per share
29.75p
28.4p
4.8%
Underlying retained business
F15 (52w)
F14 (53w)
Change
Change (52w basis)
Revenue
£1,313.0m
£1,274.0m
+3.1%
+5.0%
Operating profit
£254.4m
£249.9m
+1.8%
+3.8%
Profit before tax
£167.0m
£159.2m
+4.9%
+6.9%
Adjusted basic earnings per share*
60.4p
56.4p
+7.1%
+9.2%
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