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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This comprises a cash payment of 218.5 pence a share and a final dividend of up to 3.1 pence a share for the year ended March 2026.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
EQT said Thursday that accepting shareholders of the U.K. testing specialist will get 60 pounds in cash a share and keep the final dividend of 107.70 pence a share.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
In addition, accepting shareholders would be able to keep the proposed final dividend of 16.1 pence per share for 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
The board declared a final dividend of 5.87 pence a share, up from 5.76 pence a share, bringing the full-year dividend to 8.32 pence a share.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 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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