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Tomorrow, on Friday 26th September, the UK bank, HSBC pays out its September 2025 dividend.

https://www.hsbc.com

$0.1 = 7.3562p

https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/HSBA/total-voting-rights/17207641

The total number of voting rights in HSBC Holdings plc is 17,354,813,648

Thus:-

17,354,813,648 x £0.07356 = £1,276,620,091.94688

That is £1276 million paid to shareholders = £1.276 Billion

https://www.londonstockexchange.com/stock/HSBA/hsbc-holdings-plc/company-page

Yesterday, on Monday 22^nd September, the UK Oil Major, Shell paid out its September 2025 dividend.

https://www.shell.com

$0.358 = 26.62p a share.

https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/SHEL/voting-rights-and-capital/17207660

Shell plc’s capital as at August 29, 2025, consists of 5,845,584,188 ordinary shares

Thus:-

5,845,584,188 x £0.2662 = £1,556,094,510.8456

That is £1556 million paid to shareholders = £1.556 Billion

https://www.londonstockexchange.com/stock/SHEL/shell-plc/company-page

A few days ago, on Friday 19^th September, the UK Oil Major, BP paid out its September 2025 dividend.

https://www.bp.com

$0.0832 = 6.1942p a share.

https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/BP./total-voting-rights/17210303

The total number of voting rights in BP p.l.c. is 15,793,712,360

Thus:-

15,793,712,360 x £0.061942 = £978,294,131.00312

That is £978 million paid to shareholders.

https://www.londonstockexchange.com/stock/BP./bp-plc/company-page

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On Tuesday this week, 9th Sept, Lloyds Banking Group paid out its September 2025 dividend.

https://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com

1.22p a share.

https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/LLOY/total-voting-rights/17207779

The total number of shares issued by Lloyds Banking Group plc with rights to vote which are exercisable in all circumstances at general meetings is 59,602,243,740

Thus:-

59,602,243,740 x £0.0122 = £727,147,373.628

That is £727 million paid to shareholders in Lloyds Banking Group PLC

https://www.londonstockexchange.com/stock/LLOY/lloyds-banking-group-plc/company-page

In the past few days, Oracle has been making the headlines with its incredible database software, its data centres and its move into AI. The world runs on Oracle.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2rp992y88o

“Shares in Oracle soared more than 40% after the database software company gave investors a surprisingly rosy outlook for its cloud infrastructure business and artificial intelligence (AI) deals.”
Lets look at the numbers:-

The market value is now $922 Billion

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See below, a snapshot of some of the bonds that Oracle has outstanding. Currently money owed to the bondholders of Oracle

We can see above the different interest levels on each “debt bundle”, approximately an average of about 2.8%.

We can see Oracle owes about £77 billion. Total debt of £77bn at an average interest rate of 2.8%, meaning the interest costs for Oracle on £77bn is £2.156 billion.

So, lets keep things in context. Interest payments to bond holders of £2.156 billion…and in 2024 it sees just Cloud revenues of over $18bn which is only one of its revenue streams. It is firing on all cylinders.

Oracle stock posts best day since 1992, tops $900 billion market cap

So the debt interest payments are trivial, based on its huge reveunes.

“Oracle now sees $18 billion in cloud infrastructure revenue in fiscal 2026, with the company calling for the annual sum to reach $32 billion, $73 billion, $114 billion and $144 billion over the subsequent four years.”

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Today, Wednesday 10th Sept 2025, the premier UK Telecommunications titan, BT PLC pays out its September 2025 dividend to its long standing shareholders.
https://www.bt.com

5.76p a share.

https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/BT.A/total-voting-rights/17207218

BT Group plc confirms that on 29 August 2025 its capital consisted of 9,968,127,681 ordinary shares with voting rights. On that date, BT Group plc held 656,075 ordinary shares as treasury shares and therefore, the total number of voting rights in BT Group plc on that date was 9,967,471,606.

Thus:-

£0.0576 x 9,967,471,606 = £574,126,364.5056

£574 Million paid to the long term shareholders in British Telecommunications PLC.

https://www.londonstockexchange.com/stock/BT.A/bt-group-plc/company-page

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