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Companies around the world paid their investors higher dividends than ever before in the first quarter of the year.
Good news for investors: The world's largest companies paid out a record sum in the first quarter. Meta and Alibaba account for a significant share of this. But there is also a downward outlier.
Börsennotierte Unternehmen haben zuletzt Rekorddividenden an ihre Anleger gezahlt. Großen Einfluss darauf hatten die Online-Riesen Alibaba und Meta, die erstmals überhaupt Geld an ihre Anleger ausschütteten.
Companies put record amount in shareholders' pockets
PARIS, France — Companies paid out a record amount of money in dividends to shareholders in the first quarter of 2024 as Alibaba and Meta made their first-ever payments, a report said Thursday. Asset manager Janus Henderson tracks dividend payments by 1,200 of the largest publicly traded companies in the world and found that together
Companies paid out a record amount of more than 313 billion euros in dividends in the first quarter of this year. This is an increase of 2.4 percent compared to the same period last year. In the Netherlands, dividend payouts exceeded the global average, according to asset manager Janus Henderson's Global Dividend Index.
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