final dividend
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final dividends
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Finance. a dividend paid to shareholders from annual profits calculated at the close of a fiscal year.
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Finance. a final amount paid to creditors or investors at the close of proceedings for insolvency or liquidation of assets.
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The miner surprised with a final dividend of US$0.99/share, a 72% payout ratio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Directors declared a final dividend of 99 cents a share, taking the miner’s annual payout to $1.72 a share—its highest in four years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
It forecasts a final dividend of 13.5 U.S. cents a share, about 8% above consensus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Halma declared a final dividend of 15.11 pence a share, up 7% on year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
A final dividend of 9½d. in the pound is announced in connection with the bankruptcy of Messrs. Harvey and Hudsons, bankers, Norwich, who failed for upwards of £1,700,000, in July, 1870.
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Charles Mackie
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