Yesterday, Fri 22nd Sept 2017, the oil major BP, paid its shareholders its September dividend.

www.bp.com

It was $0.10 a share = 7.6213p a share.

What did that cost BP ?

The total number of voting rights in BP p.l.c. is 19,757,724,586

http://otp.investis.com/clients/uk/bp_plc/rns/regulatory-story.aspx?cid=233&newsid=912897

Thus:-

19,757,724,586 x 7.6213p = £1,505,795,463.87

That is £1,505 Million = £1.505 Billion

http://www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk/shareshop/security.cgi?username=&ac=&csi=10022&record_search=1&search_phrase=BP

That is a yield of over 6%.