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Huawei pays out $9.65 billion in dividends to current and retired staff

Huawei Technologies paid out dividends totalling 61.404 billion yuan ($9.65 billion) to current and retired workers in its employee shareholder scheme

Experts question the rationale of some MF schemes investing in Zomato IPO

Among the larger funds, only DSP MF and Invesco MF have not participated in the anchor book

Mindspace REIT to distribute Rs 285 crore as dividend to unitholders

Mindspace Business Parks REIT on Friday declared a distribution of Rs 285.2 crore to its unitholders for the quarter ended March.

Shell raises its dividend for second time in six months as profits surge

Sales of oil and gas assets in countries including Nigeria, Canada and Egypt added $1.4 billion to first-quarter profits

FPIs bat for common platform to avail Budget benefit on dividends

Tax consultants and custodians are also putting heads together to standardise the kind of documents needed to be furnished by FPIs, which can be acceptable to all companies

Irdai withdraws circular on dividends payouts for FY20 over Covid-19

Insurance sector regulator Irdai on Thursday withdrew its circular on dividend payouts for 2019-20 by insurers in the wake of COVID-19, citing improving economic conditions

Oil and gas sector leads profit pool, says Motilal Oswal report

The oil and gas sector has emerged as one of the largest contributor to the overall profit or dividend pool, said Motilal Oswal Financial Services in a report

Sebi directs the renaming of dividend options of mutual fund schemes

Dividend payout option has to be renamed as "Payout of Income Distribution cum capital withdrawal option," the regulator said in a circular

Despite poor show in Q4, India Inc's combined dividend payout rises 6.5%

Experts attribute the higher payout to the change in dividend law and cut in corporate income tax.

FPIs stare at higher withholding tax on dividends owing to tax treaty

While FPIs are also classified as non-residents, the withholding tax rates for these are provided under a separate section 196D of the Income Tax Act

Scrap LTCG, tax on buybacks, dividends: What Street wants amid market gloom

Mohandas Pai, former CEO and board member at Infosys, made a pitch for removing the tax on share buybacks

Raining dividends on Street: Firms loosen purse strings to help promoters

Companies advance payouts to help promoters save tax

DDT abolished: Nearly 60% high dividend yielding shares end in the red

Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) sold shares worth over Rs 1,200 crore, provisional data provided to the stock exchanges shows

Dividend payout ratio 75% for foreign-owned insurance intermediaries

In case the profit for the relevant period includes any extra-ordinary profits or income, the payout ratio shall be computed after excluding such extra-ordinary items

Rs 2,000 cr of unclaimed dividends lying with investor protection authority

Senior government officials say there are at least 2.5 million investors who have not claimed their dividends

Over 92 large companies can pay additional dividends worth Rs 340 bn: IiAS

As many as 92 large companies which sit on a mount of cash, can pay out additional dividends to the tune of Rs 34,000 crore, for the past fiscal year when these firms had muted earnings growth, says a report. These 92 companies, drawn from the BSE 500 index whose members are sitting on a whopping Rs 1.85 trillion in aggregate cash/cash equivalents, have already paid Rs 40,700 crore in dividends in 2016-17 but can pay Rs 34,000 crore more, says proxy advisory firm IiAS. According to its analysis, based on corporate financials in 2016-17, these companies continue to maintain large cash balances and at least 92 of them can potentially return cash to its shareholders as dividends or buybacks. The companies, which are taken from S&P BSE 500 index, includes TCS, Infosys, Wipro, M&M, Ashok Leyland, Bajaj Auto, Indraprastha Gas, GsK Consumer Healthcare, Jubilant FoodWorks, and Nestle India among others. It can be noted that TCS had concluded a Rs 16,000- crore share ...

Dividends from firms, excluding TCS, fell 22%: Tata Sons

But for the TCS dividend, Tata Sons would have shown operating losses during Mistry's tenure

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Don't be duped by Europe's dazzling dividends

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Fancy dividends? Keep an eye on these companies

India Inc is doling out dividends to avoid the additional 10 per cent dividend distribution tax imposed on investors with dividend income of about Rs 10 lakh a year