Here’s a summary of the Dividend Yield and Dividend Payments made by First Gen Corp (FGEN) in recent years. For the entire year 2017, the company … Read More
Here’s a summary of the Dividend Yield and Dividend Payments made by PLDT (TEL) in recent years. For the entire year 2017, the company distributed total … Read More
Here’s a summary of the Dividend Yield and Dividend Payments made by Banco de Oro Unibank Inc (BDO) in recent years. For the entire year … Read More
Here’s a summary of the Dividend Yield and Dividend Payments made by Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) in recent years. For the entire year … Read More
For most people, bonds and equity (common stock) are the usual options for investment. We have already discussed these two asset classes lengthily. For a refresher course, here’s our primer on Stock Trading and Investing while here’s our tutorial on Bonds and Fixed Income.
Most stock investors are now already familiar with the two basic forms of dividends: cash and stock.
Obviously, cash dividends are distribution of a company’s income to stockholders in the form of cash. When announced, the cash dividend is usually stated in peso or dollar amount (for example, PhP 5.00 cash dividend for every share of X company). To compute for the total amount of dividends the stockholder is entitled to receive, one simply has to multiply the amount of dividend per share by the total number of shares owned by the stockholder.
Here is an update to our article on the top stocks in the Philippines with the highest dividend payout in 2011. Last year, we wrote about companies traded on the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) that do not only provide income through price appreciation but also through dividend income.
As we have mentioned before, investors must also consider the dividends paid by companies when computing one’s potential income. Most newbie investors seem to be too concerned on capital appreciation that the dividend component of a stock is forgotten.
The recent Supreme Court ruling ordering the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to look into the extent of foreign ownership in PLDT raises a very important question: Did the telecommunications giant violate the Philippine Constitution with regard to the maximum 40% foreign equity rule?
In layman’s terms, the Supreme Court is basically asking the SEC: is PLDT owned by Filipinos or by foreigners?
