Recent articles for private investors with a focus on dividend announcements
Plus500 2016 final Results
Record year with strong revenue growth due to increase in New Customers and Active Customers
Randgold increases its 2016 final dividend by 52%
Randgold Resources increased production for the sixth successive year in 2016 while reducing total cash cost per ounce. With profit of $294.2 million up 38% on the previous year, the board has proposed a 52% increase in the dividend to $1.00 per share.
Diageo increases its 2017 interim dividend by 5%
Reported net sales (£6,421 million) and operating profit (£2,065 million) were up 14.5% and 28.0% respectively, reflecting accelerated organic growth and favourable exchange
Dixons Carphone increases its 2017 interim dividend by 8%
Highlights: Interim results for the 26 weeks ended 29 October 2016
Stagecoach increases its 2017 interim dividend by 8.6%
Earnings per share in line with expectations, investing for growth
VP Group increases its 2017 interim dividend by 12%
Profit before amortisation and tax rose 9% to £18.7 million (H1 2016: £17.2 million) on revenues 16% higher at £121.7 million (H1 2016: £105.1 million). This performance reflects strong underlying organic growth in most of our businesses, plus contributions from the acquisitions of Higher Access and TR Group in March and April 2016 respectively. Earnings per share, pre-amortisation, increased 8% to 37.9 pence per share (H1 2016: 35.1 pence per share). Return on capital employed at 15.6% is strong and remains ahead of our long term target of 15% emphasising the quality of the revenue and profit growth that the Group is generating.
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
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
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.
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