National Commercial Bank Jamaica, (NCB) approved the payment of an interim dividend of 45 cent per ordinary stock unit to be effected on February 20, 2015, for stockholders on record at February 6. The ex-dividend date is February 4.
The amount to be paid represents 51.7 percent of the reported profit of 87 cents per share for the quarter to December and just under 40 percent of the profit of $1.13 per share adjusted for the up front charge of the bank asset tax, the amount cannot be spread out over the full year on a month by month basis as was done in the past based on new accounting standard. The latest payment, if maintained for the balance of the year, would translate to $1.80 per share, a bit less than the total paid last year. In 2014, NCB hiked the final dividend to 96 cents per share to stockholders in December, from only 16 cents, in the prior year, December. The final payment for 2014 brings the total dividends for that year to $1.98. They made dividend payments of 35 cents per share in August, 35 cents in May and 32 cents per share on February last year.
IC Insider has been reliable advised, that the banking group decided to up their dividend payments to be ahead of Scotia Group and payment should continue at the heightened levels going forward, effectively moving away from a policy that was chopped and changed for several years to the disgust of many shareholders.
NCB modifies dividend payments
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