Les dividendes à tout prix : un risque

Bonjour à toutes et à tous, le Financial Times apporte un regard critique sur les politiques de distribution des dividendes des entreprises : “Alarm grows as investors get bulk of listed groups’ profits” (9 mai 2016).

The world’s listed companies have paid out more than half their profits to shareholders in the form of dividends over the past year, an unusual situation that tends to occur only in periods of widespread economic weakness.  “The implication is companies have kept paying out dividends even as earnings have fallen away, and the risk is companies are paying out dividends that are not sufficiently covered by their profits,” said Robert Buckland, global equity strategist for Citi Research…. Directors of public companies must balance demands from shareholders to receive an income from their ownership of a company against the need to reinvest profits in the cause of expansion and future growth.

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Ivan Tchotourian

Ce contenu a été mis à jour le 18 mai 2016 à 21 h 43 min.