Dhaka, Bangladesh (BBN) - The board of directors of Reckitt Benckiser has approved 500 percent interim cash dividend for the year 2015, said an office disclosure on Monday.
It is to be noted that, total interim cash dividend amount will be BDT 236.25 million, out of which BDT 137.48 million will be from current years (January to June 2015) profits.
The rest BDT 98.77 million will be funded from undistributed profit lying as free reserve which has been transferred to retained earnings for the distribution of dividend, said the disclosure.
Record date for entitlement of interim dividend is August 5. The company has also reported EPS of BDT 29.10, NAV per share of BDT 63.84and NOCFPS of BDT 38.52 for the half year ended on June 30, 2015.
There will be no price limit on the trading of the shares of the company today following its corporate declaration.
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