final dividend
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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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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
Under the latest proposal, accepting shareholders would get 6,525 pence in cash and the proposed final dividend of 147.22 pence per DCC share, the marketing and support-services provider said Wednesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
The company declared a final dividend for 2025 of 22.8 pence compared with 20.6 pence the year before.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
The group recommended a final dividend of 0.235 euros a share—bringing the full-year payout to 0.47 euros—and launched an up to 350 million-euro buyback program.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 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 Mackie, Charles
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