GlaxoSmithKline slumps as it diverts dividend cash to drugs pipeline

GlaxoSmithKline slumps as it diverts dividend cash to feed drugs pipeline amid profits warning By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 3 February 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 3 February 2021 Shares in Glaxosmithkline sank by Matt Oliver after it warned profits would fall and that it plans to cut the dividend … Read more

RUTH SUNDERLAND: Ethics will pay a dividend post Covid

RUTH SUNDERLAND: Trust depends on competence and ethics, to regain it in a post-Covid world, businesses must live up to new, higher expectations Trust, social cohesion and good governance are key to any sound business – and of a sound economy  Businesses have the chance to regain the trust they lost in the financial crisis … Read more

Asda paid £1.1bn dividend to US owners Walmart before Issa takeover 

Asda paid £1.1 billion dividend to US owners Walmart before Issa brothers’ takeover By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 11 December 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 11 December 2020 Walmart completed the sale of a majority stake in the business to the Blackburn-based Issa brothers and their private equity backers, TDR … Read more

G4S makes dividend pledge to sweeten shareholders

G4S makes dividend pledge to sweeten shareholders as deadline approaches on predator’s £3bn offer By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 25 November 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 25 November 2020 G4S has offered a final sweetener to shareholders ahead of the deadline to respond to Canadian predator Garda World’s £3billion offer. … Read more

Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday owner increases dividend

Owner of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday increases dividend for investors but reports fall in profits By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:07 GMT, 23 November 2020 | Updated: 22:07 GMT, 23 November 2020 The owner of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday increased the dividend for investors but reported … Read more

How to boost your income during the dividend drought

How to boost your income during the dividend drought: Payouts from FTSE 100 firms are forecast to fall 24% this year… but there are ways to ease the pain By Justin Urquhart Stewart For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 20 November 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 20 November 2020 What’s Happening? Amongst all the … Read more

ALLIANCE TRUST: Hits its dividend target for 54 YEARS

ALLIANCE TRUST: Investment vehicle hits its dividend target for 54 YEARS By Jeff Prestridge, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 GMT, 14 November 2020 | Updated: 21:52 GMT, 14 November 2020 Despite the severe disruption to dividends caused by coronavirus, investment trust Alliance is on course to deliver its 54th consecutive year of dividend uplift … Read more

MARKET REPORT: Builders soar as Crest Nicholson restores dividend

MARKET REPORT: Builders soar as Crest Nicholson restores dividend thanks to housing market’s recovery By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 23:15 GMT, 3 November 2020 | Updated: 23:15 GMT, 3 November 2020 Dividend-starved investors piled into housebuilder Crest Nicholson after it laid out plans to resume its shareholder payouts. Business has rebounded amid … Read more

Sainsbury’s tipped to restart dividend payments

Sainsbury’s tipped to restart dividend despite row over it receiving huge tax break and a second national lockdown By Alex Lawson, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 31 October 2020 | Updated: 21:57 GMT, 31 October 2020 Sainsbury’s is tipped to restart dividend payments this week despite a row over it receiving a huge … Read more

Tap into water firms to beat dividend drought

Tap into water firms to beat dividend drought: Utility shares could be your pipeline to a better income By Anne Ashworth For The Daily Mail Published: 22:07 GMT, 30 October 2020 | Updated: 22:18 GMT, 30 October 2020 The past week’s stock market turmoil, sparked by the Covid second wave and apprehension over the US … Read more