mike wrote:Dod101 wrote: [...]in that transitional year of 2017 when we shareholders were deprived of about 25% of our dividends.
Dod
No, we were deprived of nothing, there was a fifth dividend that year as part of the transition (my emphasis)With effect from 2018, the Company will move to four interim quarterly dividend payments. The dividend amount will be announced as part of the Preliminary Results announcement for the year ending 31 December 2017 in February 2018 and will be paid in four equal instalments in May 2018, August 2018, November 2018 and February 2019. As part of the transition to quarterly dividend payments, and to ensure shareholders receive the equivalent amount of total cash payments in 2018 as they would have under the previous payment policy, an additional interim dividend will be announced in December 2017 for payment in February 2018 and will be calculated as 25% of the total cash dividend paid in 2017.
https://www.investegate.co.uk/announcement/rns/british-american-tobacco--bats/interim-dividend-quarterly-dividends-timetables/4956812
Now that you mention it, I remember that. Where does that show in monabri’s chart though?
And main point is that we have an enormous delay in getting dividends into our bank accounts withe last payment for any calendar year not until at least 6 months beyond when it used to be paid.
Dod