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I asked Patrick Snowball whether Suncorp detected any change in investor mood. That time does not appear to have arrived yet, however. Companies will try to retain a bigger piece of the earnings pie to fund expansion, and shareholders will let them do it. They want dividends and buybacks, and companies are trying to deliver.Īt some point if this bull market continues to develop, that will change. Shareholders want to maximise their investment yield. The mood since the global crisis has been meaner, however. When the markets are hot and revenue is falling out of the sky, boards often want to hold cash back for acquisitions or investment, and shareholders are often happy for them to do so. No big acquisitions are contemplated, and if one was, Suncorp would effectively ask shareholders for permission, by going to them to raise new funds.Ĭompanies and shareholders tend to see dividends differently at different times. It posted a 48.7 per cent higher $730 million bottom-line profit after booking a $496 writedown of intangibles in its life business that Snowball says ends his reconstruction job.Īt the same time however he says is still looking for ‘‘efficiency-led’’ earnings growth in preference to revenue growth, which continues to be too costly to buy. Suncorp is also paying big dividends because it knows that its shareholders want them, however. In the mining sector, Oz Minerals tapped cash reserves to pay its third-consecutive half-year dividend of 10 cents a share despite posting an underlying loss of $14.3 million in the June half on top of a $62.5 million underlying loss in 2013. Its dividends have risen by $1.45 a share or 57 per cent since 2006-2007. On Wednesday as the profit season shifted from a canter to a gallop CBA boosted its final dividend by 9 per cent to take payout for the year 10 per cent higher. It will reveal the prize in February when it announces its full-year profit: Bank of America Merrill Lynch thinks it will have $US4.1 billion of surplus capital by then. Rio Tinto for example last week lifted earnings by 21 per cent, boosted its June half-year dividend by 15 per cent, and said it was positioning for ‘‘materially increased cash returns to shareholders’’. Leading companies are raising their payouts, and signalling that the process will continue. The first is that boards are still acutely aware that their shareholders are hungry for yield. The June 30 profit season runs until the end of this month, but important themes have already emerged.

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