AJ Bell's latest Divided Dashboard report shows that consensus analyst forecasts for FTSE 100 dividends have fallen again in Q2 2019, following the announcements of high-profile dividend cuts by Marks & Spencer and Vodafone.
AJ Bell's latest Divided Dashboard report shows that consensus analyst forecasts for FTSE 100 dividends have fallen again in Q2 2019, following the announcements of high-profile dividend cuts by Marks & Spencer and Vodafone. The FTSE 100 is now due to pay out £91.2bn, a fall of £2.5bn from the £93.7bn that was being forecast at the beginning of the year. That still represents a yield of 4.5% from the UK's leading share index, despite a capital return of around 10% so far this year. Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, said: "A number of announcements over the past quarter sh...
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