Recent articles for private investors with a focus on dividend announcements

Carillion increases its 2015 full year dividend by 3%
Financial performance in line with expectations

Admiral increases its 2015 full year dividend by 16%
Comment from Henry Engelhardt, Group Chief Executive Officer"I would describe 2015 as: the year of the uncut diamond. When the year started many people thought it would turn out to be a lump of coal. But no, 2015 was no lumpy coal year.

Arrow Global increases its 2015 ful year dividend by 39.4%
Arrow Global Group PLC "the Company" and its subsidiaries (together "the Group"), a leading European purchaser and manager of debt portfolios, is pleased to announce its preliminary results for the year ended 31 December 2015.

Schroders increases its 2015 full year dividend by 12%
Profit before tax and exceptional items up 8 per cent. to £609.7 million (2014: £565.2 million)

Domino's Pizza increases its 2015 full year dividend by 18.6%
Domino's Pizza Group plc ("Domino's", "DPG", the "Company" or the "Group"), the leading pizza company in UK and Ireland, announces its results for the 52 weeks ended 27 December 2015.

Virgin money 2015 final results
Virgin Money Holdings (UK) plc delivers strong performance in its first full financial year since listing

Laird increases its 2015 final dividend by 5%
Another year of strong financial performance and good organic growth

Novae increases its 2015 full year dividend by 10% and pays special
Gross written premium of £787.0 million (2014: £638.5 million)
2.9% like for like growth from existing units at constant rates of exchange
14.3% growth from investment in new underwriting teams
Claims ratio of 48.3% (2014: 49.1%)
Attritional loss ratio of 49.8% (2014: 49.8%)
Combined ratio of 90.8% (2014: 91.0%)
Net investment income of £6.8 million (2014: £14.3 million)
Profit before tax and foreign exchange of £54.9 million (2014: £52.4 million)
Net asset value per share of 556.2p (2014: 527.6p)
Final dividend of 20.0p per share (2014: 18.2p per share)
Special dividend of 22.5p per share (2014: 20.0p per share)

ITV increases its full year dividend by 27.6% and pays special
Revenue growth across all parts of the business

Devro maintains its 2015 full year dividend
Devro plc ("Devro" or the "group"), one of the world's leading manufacturers of collagen products for the food industry, announces its results for the year ended 31 December 2015.
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