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FRS 14: Earnings per share However, sometimes share consolidations are combined with a special dividend to the ordinary shareholders to the extent that the overall commercial effect of the transaction is that of a repurchase of shares at fair value. However they are entitled to a share of the final dividend on the basis that the dividend per share for the partly paid shares is 60% of the dividend per share for the fully paid shares. The earnings should be taken as the net profit or loss for the period after deducting dividends and any other appropriations of profit in respect of non-equity shares. www.accaglobal.com /publications/studentaccountant/30800   (5777 words)

Stock Basics - How to Read a Stock Table/Quote Column 5: Dividend Per Share - This indicates the annual dividend payment per share. Column 6: Dividend Yield - This states the percentage return on the dividend, calculated as annual dividends per share divided by price per share. For example, "pf" means the shares are preferred stock. www.investopedia.com /university/stocks/stocks6.asp   (650 words)

Dividend Yield Definition of Dividend yield The dividend yield on a company stock is the company's annual dividend payments divided by its market cap, or the dividend per share divided by the price per share. Dividend yield The result of amount of dividends per share divided by a stock's current market... It is calculated by taking the amount of dividends paid per share over the course of a year and dividing by... www.dividendplays.com /dividendyield   (650 words)

share - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about share Preference shares carry a fixed rate of dividend and have first claim on the profits of the company; ordinary shares have second claim, and if profits have been good may attract a higher dividend than the preference shares; deferred shares rank for dividend only after the rights of preference and ordinary shareholders have been satisfied. Shares may be numbered and are issued as units of definite face value; shareholders are not always called on to pay the full face value of their shares, though they bind themselves to do so. The shares of a public limited company are tradable on a stock exchange. encyclopedia.farlex.com /share   (338 words)

Financial Ratio Analysis - Dividend Yield A yield of 1.63% is not that high but there are shareholders who only paid 79.75 pence per share for their investment so their dividend yield is 1.85%; but others have paid as much as 195 pence per share for their shares, so their dividend yield is only 0.75%. The dividend yield ratio allows investors to compare the latest dividend they received with the current market value of the share as an indictor of the return they are earning on their shares. It is common for newspapers and others to calculate the dividend yield automatically as part of their offerings. www.bized.ac.uk /compfact/ratios/investor8.htm   (481 words)

Business News However, there also is another date, called the “holders' of record date” by which the shares purchased earlier than the ex-dividend date must be recorded in the company’s shareholders register. March 2 thus became the ex-dividend date, which means that the person who buys shares on this date or later would not receive the dividend that would be approved by the coming AGM. In case of stock dividend (bonus share), the price per share in the first transaction after the book closure date should fall by the rate of stock dividend in the previous day’s closing price. www.nepalnews.com /contents/englishmonthly/businessage/2004/may/stock.htm   (1299 words)

Intrum Justitia - Definitions Yield Dividend per share divided by the year-end share price. Beta Measure of the share price’s fluctuation in relation to the market as a whole, in the form of the SAX All-Share Index, over the course of the year. A figure below 1.0 means that the changes in the share price have been smaller than those in the index. www.intrum.com /page.cfm?ID=7EEEE7C4-7A84-497A-86832D95995FB5D9   (1299 words)

Business Wire : Cascade Financial Corporation Raises Cash Dividend 40% to $0.07 Per Share; Offers Dividend Reinvestment Program. @ HighBeam Research The dividend will be paid October 22, 2003, to shareholders of record on October 8, 2003. Start / B / Business Wire / September 24, 2003 / Cascade Financial Corporation Raises Cash Dividend 40% to $0.07 Per Share; Offers Dividend Reinvestment Program. Cascade Financial Corporation Raises Cash Dividend 40% to $0.07 Per Share; Offers Dividend Reinvestment Program. static.highbeam.com /b/businesswire/september242003/cascadefinancialcorporationraisescashdividend40to0/index.html   (1299 words)

Facts & FAQ - Investor Relations - IKON Office Solutions Any shareholder is eligible for the dividend reinvestment program. A dividend reinvestment and share purchase plan authorization card can be requested from National City Bank, 800-622-6757 IKON paid its first dividend in December, 1965 and has consistently paid a dividend since that time. www.ikon.com /about/ir/facts_faqs/shareholder_faqs.asp   (1299 words)

American Capital Report Total dividends declared for 2004 were $2.91 per share, an increase of 4% over 2003. In November, American Capital declared a fourth quarter 2004 regular dividend of $0.73 per share, a 6% increase over the fourth quarter 2003 regular dividend of $0.69 per share. In August 2004, American Capital announced that it had amended the DRIP in order to provide a 5% discount on shares purchased through the reinvestment of dividends, effective for dividends paid starting in December 2004, subject to the terms of the DRIP. www.american-capital.com /news/reports/report012005.html   (1299 words)

Dividend yield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The dividend yield on a company stock is the company's annual dividend payments divided by its market cap, or the dividend per share divided by the price per share. The dividend yield of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which is obtained from the annual dividends of all 30 companies in the average divided by their cumulative stock price, has also been considered to be an important indicator of the strength of the U.S. stock market. Dividend yield fell out of favor somewhat during the 1990s because of an increasing emphasis on price appreciation over dividends as the main form of return on investments. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dividend_yield   (402 words)

How good is UTI-Dividend Yield Fund Dividend yield is defined as the dividend per share divided by the share's market price at the time of investment. The fund has defined dividend yield as "high" if the same is greater that the dividend yield of the Nifty last released/published by NSE (approximately 2.50% according to the fund house). UDY will invest a minimum of 65% of its corpus in "high dividend yield instruments" at all times; the upper limit for the same has been pegged at 100%. www.rediff.com /money/2005/apr/22perfin2.htm   (524 words)

Dividend yield - Tax Terms This is the % obtained by dividing the dividend per share by the current market price per share, x 100. www.encyclopedia-wiki.org /encyclopedias/taxes/Dividend-yield.html   (20 words)

Dividend-yield stocks the best bet It is calculated as the ratio (expressed as percentage) of total dividend per share declared for previous accounting year to the market price of the share at the time of investment. A careful selection of high dividend yield stocks in a portfolio could therefore unlock significant value, which would eventually reflect in growth of net asset value of the scheme. For example, if the market price of a scrip is Rs 50 and the total dividend declared in the last accounting is 40 per cent (Rs 4 on the face value of Rs 10), the dividend yield of a scrip is 8 per cent, that is, 4/50*100). www.rediff.com /money/2004/oct/19perfin.htm   (363 words)

Copenhagen Stock Exchange Index KFX The index portfolio is determined in November each year from among the stocks included in the calculation of the Total Share Index. The index draws upon the concept of distributed dividend payments to prevent the index from experiencing artificially large fluctuations during the annual dividend season. Index adjustments are carried out in the case of stock replacements, suspensions from trade that last for a longer or indefinite period of time, seasoned issues, and mergers and acquisitions. www.ihs.ac.at /fin/finix/kfxdescrip.html   (363 words)

Dividend Yield Physics [Fool.com: Motley Fool Take] December 20, 2005 Imagine the dividend yield as the fraction it is -- the dollar amount of the annual dividend on top (the numerator) and the current share price on the bottom (the denominator). The higher the dividend dollar amount in relation to the stock price, the higher the dividend yield, and vice versa. Drop the share price to $75 and the yield jumps to 4% (3 divided by 75 equals 0.04, or 4%). www.fool.com /News/mft/2005/mft05122002.htm   (362 words)

Dogs of the Dow - Dividend Yield Dividend yield is equal to the annual dividend per share divided by the stock price. For example, if the price of a stock is $20 per share and that particular company has an annual dividend of $1, then the dividend yield would be $1 / $20 or 5%. For the dividend yield of all 30 stocks that comprise the Dow Jones Industrial Average plus the 10 stocks that make up the Dogs of the Dow, try our YTD performance tables. www.dogsofthedow.com /Dividend_Yield.htm   (196 words)

High yield stocks The dividend yield can be an indication of corporate stability; the company is on solid financial ground and has cash to distribute to shareholders. Stocks that pay hefty dividends have long been a favorite of older investors who are often looking for an income stream that leaves untouched the principal investment, allowing it to grow. The higher yield doesn't mean you're getting a better deal; you'll still receive 40 cents annually for every share you own no matter what the share price. www.bankrate.com /brm/news/investing/20030110a.asp   (1251 words)

Refund of imputation credits: application and instructions for individuals 2003 A dividend statement is sent to shareholders and to holders of non-share equity interests by companies to advise them of the amount of dividends paid to them. Dividends paid to shareholders by Australian companies are taxed under a system known as imputation. Unfranked dividends have had no Australian company tax paid on them before they are paid to shareholders or to holders of non-share equity interests. www.ato.gov.au /print.asp?doc=/content/31736.htm   (3832 words)

CH16LZC On the declaration date" "the common shares were selling for $14 per share.*" "Mar. 31309D0028000.00305C0028000.00E" "Record the March 31 entry for the issuance of a stock dividend of 1,000" "common shares that was declared on December 31. On the declaration date" "the common shares were selling for $10 per share.*" "Mar. 31309D0010000.00305C0010000.00E" "On October 15, the board of directors declared a cash dividend of $50,000," "payable on November 20 to shareholders of record on November 1. While investment decisions are more complex than basing the" "decision on the PE ratio of the share, shares with PE ratios greater than" "12 to 15 are considered more likely to be overpriced. plato.acadiau.ca /courses/busi/1013/TUT2/CH16LZC   (2393 words)

The Optionetics Trading Approach - Articles The other ratio is the Dividend Payout, which reveals the percent of earnings paid to shareholders in the form of dividends and decreases with greater retention of earnings by the company. This ratio could also be named Profit per Share since it represents a final measure of profit for each share and is reported on the bottom line of the income statement and increases with higher earnings. Finally, when analyzing companies that pay dividends there are another set of useful ratios that can be applied known as Dividend Ratios. www.optionetics.com /articles/article_full.asp?idNo=9617   (798 words)

Boston.com / News / World / Europe / European Share Prices Flat A promise to buy back 1 billion Swiss francs ($858.4 million) worth of its own shares and an 11-percent rise in its dividend lifted Nestle shares by 1.8 percent as the food giant's 2004 margins improved despite a slight fall in total sales. Axa rose 2 percent after its 2004 net profit more than doubled, beating forecasts, and the company proposed raising its annual dividend by 61 percent to 0.61 euro a share. Shares in CapGemini rose 4 percent after Europe's largest computer consultancy predicted better profitability and revenue for this year, and pleased investors with a vow to restore its North American business to operational break even in the second half of the year. www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/02/24/european_share_prices_flat?mode=PF   (798 words)

WSJ: Tax Cut Dividends - Dispensing the claim that tax cuts benefited only the yacht-owner class The official numbers aren't in yet, but most fiscal analysts believe a large share of this year's revenue gusher is coming from higher than expected capital gains and dividend tax receipts. Non-withheld personal income tax receipts-- much of which is from capital gains and dividend income-- have exploded by one-third since 2003. The first is that this windfall means that tax revenue as a share of the economy is climbing back to normal levels. www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1465028/posts   (706 words)

Bob Dole's Tax Cut A Peace Dividend But the end of war in 1953 again produced a peace dividend, with revenues as a share of GDP falling to 17.3 percent in 1954. Instead of paying more taxes than ever before in the history of the United States, we ought to be enjoying a peace dividend. By the end of 1949 federal revenues as a share of GDP had fallen to 14.7 percent. www.ncpa.org /~ncpa/oped/dupont/oct996.html   (774 words)

AGL - NGC Reports $50.7m Interim Profit, Resumes Dividend Imputation The dividend will be paid on 22 March 2004 to shareholders that are registered on 12 March 2004. With the utilisation of prior-year tax losses, the Directors have declared an interim dividend of 8.5 cents per share, fully imputed, compared with an unimputed interim dividend of 4 cents per share for the 2002 half year." The Company also announced the resumption of full dividend imputation. www.agl.com.au /AGL/Press+Releases/24+February+2004.htm   (740 words)

Kyocera Americas News In conjunction with this ratio change, Kyocera has made the dividend rate of its Depositary Shares equal to the dividend rate of its common shares. This ratio change was effected by a 100% free distribution of Depositary Shares that Kyocera paid to ADS shareholders on Friday, September 11, 1998, thus doubling the number of Depositary Shares so held. In addition, the ratio change will simplify investors' efforts to track Kyocera share prices between the NYSE and the Japanese stock exchanges on which the Company's common shares are traded. americas.kyocera.com /news/news_detail.cfm?key=1   (274 words)

Chapter 20 Earnings Per Share Shares outstanding prior to a stock dividend or stock split are retroactively restated to reflect the increase in shares, as if the distribution occurred at the beginning of the period. Purchases of shares that occur after a stock dividend or split are not affected by the distribution. Since EPS are calculated as if the preferred shares had been converted into common shares, there would be no dividends on the preferred stock; so, earnings available to common shareholders are increased in the calculation by the dividends that otherwise would have been distributed to preferred shareholders. capital2.capital.edu /faculty/lmitterm/Chap20-312-01.htm   (1658 words)

Dividend reinvestment program - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This allows the investment return from dividends to be immediately invested for the purpose of price appreciation (and compounding), without incurring brokerage fees or waiting to accumulate enough cash for a full share of stock. These optional cash purchases (or OCPs) may also be commission-free and, like the dividends that are reinvested, need not be in whole-share increments. Although the name implies that reinvesting dividends is the main purpose of these plans, most also allow the enrollee to make additional (or optional) cash purchases, subject to minimums of $10 or less and maximums that often exceed $100,000 per year. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dividend_reinvestment_program   (1658 words)

ChartFilter Screener Newsletter 13 - Looking for income generating stocks Dividend yield is calculated by taking the amount of dividends paid per share over the year and dividing by the stock's price. First, the reference year for dividends is 2004 as well we should expect an annual dividend rate based on the latest payment of 1.8375 per share. Further, for transactions that have not been completed by the ex-dividend date, the exchanges automatically reduce the price of the stock by the amount of the dividend (because a dividend comes from the company's cash reserves, thereby reducing the asset value). www.chartfilter.com /screenernewsletter/nl13.htm   (780 words)

Chapter 20 Earnings Per Share Shares outstanding prior to a stock dividend or stock split are retroactively restated to reflect the increase in shares, as if the distribution occurred at the beginning of the period. The ratio is calculated by dividing dividends per common share by the earnings per share. The dividend payout ratio expresses the percentage of earnings that is distributed to shareholders as dividends. capital2.capital.edu /faculty/lmitterm/Chap20-312-01.htm   (1658 words)

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