European Dividend Aristocrat HALMA PLC (GB0004052071) pays £0.100 dividend, with an ex-dividend date of August 27th and a payable date of October 1st. The UK company Halma PLC is engaged in developing, making, and marketing products that are used to protect lives, or improve the quality of life, for individuals and businesses. The current dividend…
Index provider STOXX announced today that according to the new Insolvency Rule (section 5.1.1) Wirecard AG(ISIN DE0007472060) is deleted from the DAX index, effective August 24th. Wirecard is replaced by Delivery Hero SE(ISIN DE000A2E4K43). In June Deutsche Lufthansa AG left Germany’s DAX index and has been replaced by the real-estate company Deutsche Wohnen SE. …
European Dividend Aristocrat and Danish healthcare company Novo Nordisk paid an interim dividend of 3.25 DKK per share. The current dividend yield is around 2.50% with a payout ratio of 50.5%. Novo Nordisk has been able to increase its dividend payout since 2003. In 2016, Novo Nordisk switched from annual dividend payments to semi-annual. Payment…
European Dividend Aristocrat Legal & General paid a cash dividend of £0.049 per share with an ex-dividend date of August 13th and a payable date of September 24th. The current annual dividend is £0.1757 per share, representing a dividend yield of 8.2%. The current payout-ratio is 55.17% and the 5-year average dividend growth rate is…
European Dividend Aristocrat Ashtead Group (aht.lse) pays a cash dividend of £0.335 per share with an ex-dividend date of August 13th and a payable date of September 11th. Ashtead is a “fast dividend growth” stock, the average 5 years growth rate is above 25%, which is exceptional for UK dividend stocks.Year-to-date the stock is up…
European Dividend Aristocrat Diageo pays a cash dividend of £0.425 per share with an ex-dividend date of August 13th and a payable date of October 8th. The average 5 years growth rate is now close to 5%. The diagram below displays Diageo’s Dividend history. Diageo plc’s current dividend yield of 2.72% is 8% just above…
European Dividend Aristocrat and Supermarket giant Ahold Delhaize NV reported a 78% surge in second-quarter earnings related to the coronavirus. The 2020 interim dividend is €0.50, up 67% Underlying operating income was €1.01 billion, up 78% from 594 million euros in the same period a year ago, on comparable sales of €19.1 billion, up 15.9%.…
The fund manager Janus Henderson estimated that more than 25% of the 1,200 companies screened in its Global Dividend Index have cut or deferred at least one dividend payment this year. The corona-virus has also impacted Dividend Aristocrats, especially in Europe. Time to recap which Dividend Aristocrats announced a dividend cut or were not able…
Per July 1st , European dividend aristocrat Wolters Kluwer (WKL.AS, ISIN: NL0000395903 ) will be added to our International Dividend Portfolio. At the moment of writing Wolters Kluwers N.V. is trading at €69.50 and forward dividend yield is 1.70%. Read more in our July newsletter (coming soon) and the following related articles, Wolters Kluwer keeps…
Safran’s Board of Directors has decided not to propose to the Annual General Meeting of shareholders the payment of a dividend in 2020 for the 2019 financial year. According to the management, this decision preserves the Group’s resources in order to protect employees, maintain continuity of its operations, notably for its suppliers, support its customers,…