Vodafone PLC pays out a dividend of €0.0474 today.
The UK’s No 2 telecoms operator, behind the market leader and world beating BT Group PLC
The total number of voting rights in Vodafone is 26,617,945,523.
http://otp.investis.com/clients/uk/vodafone3/rns/regulatory-story.aspx?cid=221&newsid=832585
So the cash paid out to shareholders is:
26,617,945,523 x €0.0474 = €1,261,690,617.79
€1,261,690,617 = £1,110,590,000
Vodafone pays out £1.110 Billion.
http://www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk/shareshop/security.cgi?csi=10097
A yield of 5%