(JOB) Rolls-Royce Increases Dividend

Ø Rolls-Royce, the aircraft engine maker, raised its dividend by more than a three times → reflected its continuing confidence in future growth.
Ø Rolls-Royce is benefiting from a boom in aviation in → the Middle East and Asia.
Ø It revealed a record order book → 45.9 billion Pounds → an increase of 76 per cent
Ø The company increased the total pay-out → 35.6 per cent to 13 points following a year-long strategic financial review.
Ø Some analysts had predicted a share buy-back or special dividend of as much as 1 Billion Pounds.
Ø The decision to → rebase the dividend and commit to a progressive dividend policy subject to earnings was → "the most powerful way” → showing confidence in the future of the business
Ø However, the return to investors’ → much less than the market had expected → and the shares fells 49 points → or more than 10 per cent → to 431 points.

Relation to the other two articles:
Ø Not every investors are aware about what analyst said nowadays → investors tend to find out themselves and make their decision by their “peer groups”
Ø Investors are tend to be “the expert” of the dividend payment “games” → many company are trying to convinced investors by increasing the dividend payments → nowadays people are more suspicious for this kind of moves