Last week, on Friday 5th August 2022, Vodafone PLC paid out its August dividend.
Vodafone is the UK’s 2nd largest telecoms group, with BT Group PLC, being the Premier telecoms operator.
It paid out €0.045 Cents a share = £0.03785130 a share.
https://investors.vodafone.com/individual-shareholders/dividends
The total number of voting rights in Vodafone is 27,945,252,322
https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/VOD/total-voting-rights/15564873
Thus:-
27,945,252,322 x £0.03785130 = £1,057,764,129.2157186
£1057 Million = £1.057 Billion paid to shareholders
https://www.londonstockexchange.com/stock/VOD/vodafone-group-plc/company-page