Frost discusses the prospects of a 'dividend bonanza'

DIVIDENDS

Artemis Income manager Adrian Frost explains how companies can take advantage of new-found healthy balance sheets.

Armageddon? No. Thanks to the largesse of taxpayers, that's been averted. And, far from the depths of the credit crunch, the finances of many companies are now in rude health – almost embarrassingly so. Most companies have taken the chance they were given, and done some remarkable work on their balance sheets. This leaves shareholders and management to wonder whether or not they should utilise this hard-won prudence to benefit shareholders; or whether, on the principle of ‘once bitten, twice shy’, this financial surplus should be kept in the form of a strategic reserve. Today’s pos...