Recent articles for private investors with a focus on dividend announcements

Mitie increases its 2016 full year dividend by 3.4%
Operating profit before other items of £128.9m, generating a 5.8% margin (2015: £128.6m, 5.7%)

Burberry increases its 2016 full year dividend by 5%
Burberry announces revenue of £2.5bn and adjusted PBT of £421m;

DCC increases its 2016 final dividend by 15%
35.5% growth in Group operating profit to £300.5 million, driven in particular by the performance of DCC Energy.

ICAP maintains its 2015 full year dividend
London - 16 May 2016 - ICAP plc (IAP.L), a leading markets operator and provider of post trade risk and information services, announces today its audited results for the year ended 31 March 2016.

ITE Group reduces its 2016 interim dividend by 40%
Acquisitions drive growth and further diversify the Group away from Russia

BT Group increases its 2015 full year dividend by 13%
BT Group plc (BT.L) today announced its results for the fourth quarter and year to 31 March 2016.

Sainsbury reduces its 2015 full year dividend by 8.3%
Mike Coupe, Chief Executive of Sainsbury's, said: "We are making good progress against the strategy we outlined to shareholders in November 2014. We continue to outperform our main supermarket peers and maintain market share in a competitive, deflationary environment. We deliver great quality products and services at fair prices, whenever and wherever customers want to shop - and with volumes and transactions up, it is clear customers are responding positively to our offer. Our core food business performed well, underpinned by our quality investment programme, our simpler pricing strategy and lower regular prices. We also saw strong growth in clothing and general merchandise, as well as in our convenience and online channels. These results reflect the multi-product, multi-channel shopping experience customers are looking for today and our proposed acquisition of Home Retail Group plc will accelerate our strategy in this direction.

Imperial Brands increases its 2016 interim dividend by 10%
Delivering against strategy; including strong US contribution

Redefine increases its 2016 interim dividend by 1.6%
18.7% increase in earnings available for distribution to £25.4m (28 February 2015: £21.4m)
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