S&P 500 companies shoveled $376 billion in cash to shareholders last year
Unsurprisingly, the two largest companies in the world, Exxon Mobil and Apple, are also the two biggest payers of dividends.
By Business Insider | Updated:
By Andy Kiersz
S&P 500 companies shoveled $376 billion in cash to shareholders last year.
Senior earnings analyst John Butters of market research firm FactSet wrote a blog post describing how S&P 500 companies paid out a total of $376 billion in dividends to their shareholders in the year between January 2013 and January 2014.
Butters included a chart showing that dividends per share (the blue line) have grown at an amazingly fast rate and are at a 20-year high:
Unsurprisingly, the two largest companies in the world, Exxon Mobil and Apple, are also the two biggest payers of dividends:
S&P 500 companies shoveled $376 billion in cash to shareholders last year.
Senior earnings analyst John Butters of market research firm FactSet wrote a blog post describing how S&P 500 companies paid out a total of $376 billion in dividends to their shareholders in the year between January 2013 and January 2014.
Butters included a chart showing that dividends per share (the blue line) have grown at an amazingly fast rate and are at a 20-year high:
Unsurprisingly, the two largest companies in the world, Exxon Mobil and Apple, are also the two biggest payers of dividends:
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