A dividend calculated at the end of a financial year based on the company's annual profits.
the airline is paying a final dividend of 5 cents a share
Example sentencesExamples
- In addition to not paying a final dividend, the company is casting doubt over the next interim dividend payment.
- The final dividend has just been passed and there's little in the way of net assets.
- A quick sale of assets was needed to raise money to pay a final dividend.
- "It is difficult to be precise as there are many factors which will impact on the final dividend," he informed shareholders.
- The board has proposed sustaining the final dividend at the 2003 level of 2.04p per share.
- Assuming the final dividend is also left unchanged, shares carry a twice-covered 5.2% yield.
- The final dividend has been scrapped, as was widely predicted.
- The bank gave long-suffering shareholders a break by unexpectedly increasing its final dividend.
- The company's final dividend will be halved to 7.8p.
- The company is expected to start paying final dividends to all its shareholders in July.