He increased the dividends per share by 400 percent and returned value to shareholders through buybacks.

Given this measure, dividends per share are determined by where is the target dividend payout ratio.

The Board of Directors distributed for the first time a dividend per share out of the profit for the year 2005.

For example, if a company were to pay US$100,000 in dividends on one million shares or as 10 dividend per share, investors may incur tax upon this disbursement.

Sovereign Investors, for instance, gets high marks for including price/earnings ratios, historical earnings per share and dividends per share for each of its stock holdings.

While Siegel's point fits the simplest introductory economic models, it is contradicted by the facts: Historical data on dividends reveal significant real growth of dividends per share.

We had another excellent year in nineteen eighty nine with a twenty percent increase in earnings per share and a nineteen percent increase in dividends per share.

Dividend cover is the ratio of company's earnings (net income) over the dividend paid to shareholders, calculated as earnings per share divided by the dividend per share.

He claimed that it is a "mistake" to assume that dividends per share will post real growth, as we did in our calculations, because dividends, in theory, should only just keep up with inflation.

The game has many options to alter game play, both minor (such as modifying the way trains become obsolete, or providing variable instead of fixed dividends per share) and major (adding a ninth railroad).

The incentive compensation is directly related to shareholder benefit, says the note, in that it is formula-based on a combination of growth in earnings and dividends per share and increase in ordinary share price.

Since the company has paid say £x in dividends per share out of its cash account on the left hand side of the balance sheet, the equity account on the right side should decrease an equivalent amount.

Earnings and dividends per share have been restated to reflect the bonus element in the 1989 rights issue and the capitalisation issue in 1990 but not shares issued in connection with the acquisition of Ultramar.

The dividend yield or the dividend-price ratio of a share is the company's total annual dividend payments divided by its market capitalization, or the dividend per share, divided by the price per share.

If shareholders approve the agreement at the annual meeting, tentatively scheduled for May, each holder of Texaco stock will receive $8 worth of special dividends per share: $4 of special notes, $3 of cash and $1 of preferred stock.