RE: Disappointing23 Sep 2021 23:09
Pearls I guess you don't work for a big firm especially with good enterprise risk management in place, otherwise you would say sensible things. By December they will have a good idea what level they can pay, and budget it for 2022. If they promise something now and in the next 4 months they end up making huge losses and can't pay would you forgive them? How would stakeholders such as yourselves, regulators, etc, react towards hbr who will be accused of false promises. Take for example, Lloyds pre covid promised a special dividend, covid happened and it wiped out all their profits and never paid. Out of all the banks Lloyds fared the worst because they didn't keep their promise. I work in a department that sets out the planned dividends it can pay out over the next 12 months with 95% certainty and also as a rough idea for the next 10 years by conducting lots off stress and scenario testing to the current balance sheet. So please stop going on about dividends and buybacks. If you want dividends invest in Apple or someone else.