Recent articles for private investors with a focus on dividend announcements
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
DCC Group increases its 2017 interim dividend by 12.5%
Very strong first half performance with Group operating profit increasing by 33.3% (up 26.5% on a constant currency basis) to £117.8 million, with all divisions recording growth on the prior year.
Bellway increases its 2016 full year dividend by 40.3%
Total revenue has risen by 26.9% to £2,240.7 million (2015 - £1,765.4 million) as a result of the number of homes sold rising by 12.5% to 8,721 (2015 - 7,752), a new record and the Group's seventh successive year of volume growth, together with a further rise of 12.9% in the average selling price to £252,793 (2015 - £223,821).
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