UK-listed companies brought back their dividends strongly last year after being forced to slash payouts as the Covid crisis hit in 2020, with 2021 ending significantly better than the prior year for income-chasing investors
公開日:2022/03/05 / 最終更新日:2022/03/05
UK-listed companies brought back their dividends strongly last year after being forced to slash payouts as the Covid crisis hit in 2020, with 2021 ending significantly better than the prior year for income-chasing investors.
Dividends from UK-listed firms jumped by 46 per cent to £94.1billion, according to the latest UK Dividend Monitor from Link Group.
While that’s a dramatic increase, a significant boost came from special one-off dividends, which hit a record £16.9billion – three times their normal level.
2021 dividends: The year ended much better than 2020 for investors
Once that is taken out of the picture, underlying payouts rose more modestly, up 21.9 per cent to £77.2billion, which is close to 2015 levels.
While beating its expectations, total dividend payouts for 2021 remain below their pre-pandemic average levels.
Mining accounted for almost a quarter of the UK total last year and was by far the biggest contributor to the increase, while airlines and the leisure & travel sector sector saw the biggest declines.
Booming commodity prices lifted profits at mining companies, which in turn handed out cash to investors, with payouts – at nearly £21billion – three times larger than the long term average.
Of that, some £6billion were in special dividends, as many groups preferred one-off payouts rather than drive expectations for future regular dividends too high.
Mining giant Rio Tinto, last year’s largest dividend payer, along with Anglo-Australian BHP Group, contributed to three quarters of all special dividends.
Banks were the second top driver of total dividend growth and saw the biggest jump in dividends, as the ban on payouts they faced in 2020 was lifted.
Total dividends for 2021 were boosted by frothy, special one-off dividends
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