{"id":1974,"date":"2017-01-17T01:01:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T01:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=1974"},"modified":"2017-01-12T07:54:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T07:54:39","slug":"glaxosmithkline-january-dividend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=1974","title":{"rendered":"GlaxoSmithKline January Dividend."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week on Thursday 12th Jan, GlaxoSmithKline paid its dividend to its shareholders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsk.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.gsk.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was <strong>19p<\/strong> a share.<\/p>\n<p>The total number of voting rights in the Company is <strong>4,910,110,112<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonstockexchange.com\/exchange\/news\/market-news\/market-news-detail\/GSK\/13083316.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.londonstockexchange.com\/exchange\/news\/market-news\/market-news-detail\/GSK\/13083316.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So the cost of the dividend to GSK was:<\/p>\n<p>4,910,110,112 * \u00a30.19 = <strong>\u00a3932,920,921.28<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That is <strong>\u00a3932 Million<\/strong> of Cash.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?csi=10042\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?csi=10042<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That is a <strong>5% yield.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week on Thursday 12th Jan, GlaxoSmithKline paid its dividend to its shareholders. http:\/\/www.gsk.com It was 19p a share. The total number of voting rights in the Company is 4,910,110,112 http:\/\/www.londonstockexchange.com\/exchange\/news\/market-news\/market-news-detail\/GSK\/13083316.html So the cost of the dividend to GSK was: 4,910,110,112 * \u00a30.19 = \u00a3932,920,921.28 That is \u00a3932 Million of Cash. http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?csi=10042 That is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1975,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions\/1975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}