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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Skanska dividend yield

The group Skanska is one of the world's largest construction and services groups, with presence in Europe, U.S. and Latin America.

Our international prestige, adding to our history of more than 130 years, position us as an indisputable leader in construction services, development of commercial and residential projects and infrastructure development through public-private partnerships. At Skanska we focus on finding innovative solutions to work close to their customers, combining international expertise with local presence. At Skanska we act as a local company with global strength. Founded in 1887, established its first international operations around 1897. Today, 52,000 employees participate actively in the selection of local markets in Europe, USA and Latin America.

  • Sweden
  • United States
  • Great Britain
  • Denmark
  • Finland
  • Estonia
  • Norway
  • Hungary
  • Poland
  • Czech Republic
  • Slovakia
  • Romania
  • Latin America

Skanska's strategy to achieve operational and financial objectives are:

Focus on core business of construction and services.
A global company with local presence.
Take advantage of the collective resources of the Group: brand, employee expertise and financial strength.
Forecast and systematically manage risk.
Develop and improve our environmental expertise throughout our operations.
Being an industry leader in sustainability and environment, particularly in health, safety and ethics.
To recruit, develop and have competent employees and achieve diversity.

Skanska dividend yield
Skanska company info

Monday, November 14, 2011

Finmeccanica dividend yield

Finmeccanica S.p.A. es el segundo grupo industrial italiano. Finmeccanica desarrolla sus actividades principalmente en los sectores de la Aeronáutica, Helicópteros, Espacio, Electrónica de Defensa, Sistemas de Defensa, Energía y Transporte. En la actualidad, la compañía se encuentra en la etapa final de su proceso de transformación en holding industrial, contando con empresas y representaciones en más de 100 países. El estado italiano a través del Ministerio de Economía posee cerca de un 30% de la acciones de dicho holding.

In summary, today's Finmeccanica Group is a truly multi-domestic and multi-cultural, with 74,497 people, of whom 43.3% work outside of Italy (in particular over 11,760 in the United States and more than 9,650 in Great Britain).

It has managed to establish itself as a dynamic and innovative, which serves the security, defense, mobility and quality of life for all and who knows how to create value.

dividend of Finmeccanica
aditional info of Finmeccanica

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

KPN Dividend

KPN is a Dutch fixed and mobile telephony, including 2G and 3G mobile operations.

Among the activities are KPN Mobile phone companies E-Plus, BASE, Simyo, Blau and Ortel that operate in several European countries (Germany, Belgium, France, Spain and the Netherlands).

History

The company was formerly known as Koninklijke PTT Nederland, and before Staatsbedrijf der Posterijen, PTT telephone or telegraph in public ownership and fixed line operator in the Netherlands. Before the spin-off of TPG, the company also controlled by the Dutch national postal services. KPN Dutch government privatized gradually from 1994, reducing its stake to 6.4% in 2005 and finally to zero in 2006. So it has waived its "golden share" right of veto.

In 2001, KPN tried to merge with Belgium's Belgacom telecommunications. Unsuccessful due to the unwillingness of the Belgian government. In 2001, Telefónica of Spain expressed its interest in the purchase of KPN.

The Japanese mobile phone company NTT DoCoMo has a stake of 2% in KPN Mobile NV. From 2000 to 2007 KPN Mobile used i-mode services in mobile networks.

KPN is partly owned KPNQwest, a telecommunications company also owned by KPN and Qwest Communications International American. The company was established to bring together the two partners of fiber optic networks and Internet services, expertise and customer base of EUnet International.

KPN has also made operational through joint ventures with TDC and Swisscom.

In 2007 KPN took over Getronics NV, worldwide enterprise ICT services with more than 22,000 employees, and became almost twice its original size. KPN is still occupied parts of the sale of Getronics which were not of interest. Recently sold a Dutch department name Getronics Business Application Services (BAS) to Capgemini for about 250 million euros. English

Aad van Waveren In 2009 he was appointed president and vice president Sergio Van Lacke it.

KPN dividend detalis
KPN Company detalis

Monday, June 6, 2011

TPSA dividend

TPSA, Polish leading telecom company, goal is to achieve a strong leadership position in all major business segments.

The source of success will be a wide range of modern services, vigorous and active sales structure and high quality customer service, enhanced by a robust infrastructure and motivated workforce.

Coordination of efforts in the compact and efficient business model will ensure a sustainable high returns to shareholders.

The company has increase it's dividend since 2004 and has lost of plans to expand the business.

TPSA dividend detalis
TPSA Company detalis

Monday, January 31, 2011

Woolworths Dividend yield

History
Since opening their first single basement store in Sydney’s Pitt Street in 1924, Woolworths has grown into a household name with a presence in almost every metropolitan and regional centre in Australia and New Zealand. They began operating fresh food stores 60 years ago when advances in refrigeration technology revolutionised transport and storage. In 2010 they celebrated their 86th year in the retailing business.

Bussiness
Woolworths Limited - WOW.AX is made up of some of the most recognisable and trusted brands in retailing, serving millions of customers every day with great choice, low prices and excellent quality.

Their retailing expertise stretches across food & grocery, liquor, petrol, general merchandise and consumer electronics, serving millions of customers each and every day across Australia and New Zealand.

Woolworths Limited is also a major investor in Australian & New Zealand communities in three key ways:
Economically - through job creation, growth in shareholder wealth, infrastructure development, new product innovations and as a significant customer of domestic agricultural and manufacturing production
Socially - through the training and educational development of thousands of employees, the advancement of food industry quality standards, workplace safety standards and retail technology improvements, and by enabling local charities to receive direct donations, in-kind support and facilitation of fundraising
Environmentally - In November 2007 they launched their Sustainability Strategy 2007-15, identifying their material environmental impacts, setting targets and commitments for improvement, and starting them on the pathway to change.

Dividends

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Dividend analysis of telecom

The aim of this analysis is to compare the different companies of Telecomunications from the point of view of those most interesting companies to invest on according to their dividends.

First, we extract the companies that are part of this sector among the more than 2.500 companies that make up our database, obtaining a total of 113 listed companies worldwide.

As criteria for analysis / assessment to conduct our ranking of companies we use the following:

1. Current percentage dividend. Bigger is better
2. Average dividend rate from 2004 to the present. Bigger is better
3. Payout Ratio. The lower the better
4. Price to Earning Ratio. The lower the better
5. Price to Book Value Ratio. The lower the better
6. Number of years that has increased its dividend over the previous year since 2004. Bigger is better.

When drawing up the ranking, we will take each of the first 5 criteria and give 1 point to the first company, 2 to the second and so on up to 113.

Subsequently, we will add the points for each company following the 5 criteria and divide it by the sixth 'number of years that has increased its dividend over the previous year' in order to give prominence to the companies that are serious about having a stable and growing dividend.

The results of the first 28 cmpanies are as follows:


Saturday, November 13, 2010

Severn Trend Dividend Analysis

Severn Trent was established in 1974 as an industry leading company run by the state to regional level based in Birmingham, responsible for the administration and water supply, treatment and disposal of wastewater in the catchment areas of the two main rivers the United Kingdom, the Severn and Trent.

The company's strategy is to create value through its focus on water.

Severn Trent is divided into two groups Severn Trent Water and Severn Trent Services.

In 2009 the company achieved a turnover of £ 1.6bn.

Severn Trent Water

Severn Trent Water provides high quality water and sewer service to more than 3.7 million homes and businesses in the Midlands and central Wales.

Key points

  • be among the cheapest in the industrial sector
  • qualitative exceed the average industrial water and wastewater
  • management team with a clear strategy
  • streamline the business across 20 key performance indicators
  • commitment to long-term responsibility in the administration of being friendly business environment, customers and communities in which we live and work

Severn Trent Services

Severn Trent Services is a world leader in solutions for water treatment and wastewater. Based in USA, has a large presence in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. It has three main divisions: Water Purification, Operating Services and Analytical Services.

Key points

  • be recognized for the quality, reliability and stability
  • be a growing leader in market margins such as disinfection, filtration, arsenic removal and treatment of the emerging market ballast water.
  • continue to innovate in the development of advanced technologies have a strong record of growth and cost controls