Dividends
$34 billion in payouts to come for investors despite weaker profits
Payouts to investors will ramp up in the coming week with companies keen on maintaining dividend payments despite weaker profits.
- by Millie Muroi
Latest
Boards wary about splashing dividend cash as growth slows
Boards are taking a cautious stance on lifting dividends as businesses face rising costs and an economy that is slowing because of steep interest rate rises.
- by Clancy Yeates
Analysis
Franking credits
Shareholder revolt likely over proposed franking credit laws
The Albanese government’s proposed change on franking credits, if it becomes law, will raise only $10 million a year. This leads to the question; why bother?
- by John Collett
Rate hikes and staff shortages: What to watch out for this earnings season
Consumer spending, demand uncertainty for miners and labour challenges are front and centre as the earnings season ramps up next week.
- by Georgina Mckay
Analysis
Analysis
Higher bank dividends tipped as big four profits enter ‘sweet spot’
While much of the focus is on a looming increase in mortgage costs, higher interest rates are expected to significantly benefit bank shareholders.
- by Clancy Yeates
Tech investors miss out on record payouts from Aussie companies
The power of dividends is under-appreciated by those mostly younger investors who have piled into tech stocks that are unprofitable, focussing on share price gains alone.
- by John Collett
Huge cash piles set to keep M&A boom rolling
Australia’s mergers and acquisitions boom is set to roll on as major corporates deal with massive cash piles that have swollen further while they generated strong-than-expected profits in the first half of this year.
- by Patrick Hatch
Opinion
Shares
What BHP’s big move home means for the Australian sharemarket
After two decades, BHP’s experiment with a complicated corporate structure is about to end, injecting more volatility and some extra risk into the Australian sharemarket.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Dividend bonanza to lose its zing on COVID aftershocks
The outlook for Australian dividends in fiscal 2022 is still pretty upbeat, but market volatility and weaker iron ore prices are likely to make companies less generous with payouts.
- by Jessica Yun
Analysis
Big four
Markets optimistic bank dividend recovery has legs
Recent profit results showed the country’s major lenders are sitting on piles of surplus capital and excess provisions for bad debts. That bodes well for rising dividends.
- by Clancy Yeates
M&A boom predicted after companies sit on $40 billion cash pile
Ongoing COVID lockdowns are not expected to stop companies opening the purse strings to pursue acquisitions or return cash to investors via buybacks and dividends.
- by Colin Kruger
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