{"id":2054,"date":"2017-03-21T01:02:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T01:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2017-03-20T14:00:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T14:00:50","slug":"astra-zeneca-march-2017-dividend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/?p=2054","title":{"rendered":"Astra Zeneca March 2017 Dividend."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, AstraZeneca paid out this March 2017 Dividend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astrazeneca.com\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.astrazeneca.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The dividend was <strong>\u00a31.502 a share<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astrazeneca.com\/investor-relations\/dividend-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.astrazeneca.com\/investor-relations\/dividend-policy.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now how much will that cost the company ?<\/p>\n<p>As at 28 February 2017 the issued share capital of AstraZeneca PLC with voting rights is 1,265,386,327 ordinary shares of US$0.25.\u00a0 No shares are held in Treasury.\u00a0 Therefore, the total number of voting rights in AstraZeneca PLC is 1,265,386,327.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astrazeneca.com\/investor-relations\/Stock-exchange-announcements\/transparency-directive-voting-rights-and-capital-01032017.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.astrazeneca.com\/investor-relations\/Stock-exchange-announcements\/transparency-directive-voting-rights-and-capital-01032017.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thus:<\/p>\n<p>1,265,386,327\u00a0 * \u00a31.502 a share = <strong>\u00a31,900,610,263<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That is <strong>\u00a31.9 Billion of cash<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?username=&amp;ac=&amp;csi=10009&amp;record_search=1&amp;search_phrase=az\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?username=&amp;ac=&amp;csi=10009&amp;record_search=1&amp;search_phrase=az<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That is a <strong>yield of 4.6%<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, AstraZeneca paid out this March 2017 Dividend. https:\/\/www.astrazeneca.com The dividend was \u00a31.502 a share https:\/\/www.astrazeneca.com\/investor-relations\/dividend-policy.html Now how much will that cost the company ? As at 28 February 2017 the issued share capital of AstraZeneca PLC with voting rights is 1,265,386,327 ordinary shares of US$0.25.\u00a0 No shares are held in Treasury.\u00a0 Therefore, the total [&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-2054","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\/2054","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=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2055,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions\/2055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}