Payout Policy of European Companies

• Autorzy: Mieczysław Kowerski

Warianty tytułu

Polityka wypłat spółek europejskich

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Despite Europe's global importance, very little published research has examined payout policy on this continent. The rather scarce research which has been conducted in this field throughout European companies cover different countries, groups of companies and timeframes, which makes it very difficult to perform comparisons and formulate proper conclusions. The aim of this work is to analyze the payout policy of European companies with comparison to companies outside the European market. Research on the literature has been performed as well as own analyses. The most important tendencies of the European companies' payout policy have been formulated. Companies in Europe have higher propensity to pay dividends than their counterparts outside Europe and increasing, yet still variable, payout values, both dividends and share repurchases. European companies transfer a substantially bigger part of their net profit to their shareholders than their counterparts from the other continents. An increment in the dividend payout ratio in Europe is clearly visible over the last couple of years. High dividend yields of European companies compensate low yields of governments and corporate bonds. (original abstract)

Pomimo wielkiego znaczenia Europy w globalnej gospodarce, stosunkowo niewiele jest publikacji na temat polityki wypłat spółek europejskich. Prowadzone, stosunkowo nieliczne badania polityki wypłat przez spółki europejskie dotyczą różnych państw, grup spółek i okresów, co powoduje duże trudności w porównaniach i formułowaniu właściwych wniosków. Celem pracy jest analiza polityki wypłat spółek europejskich na tle spółek z rynków pozaeuropejskich. Przeprowadzono badania literaturowe oraz własne analizy i wyodrębniono najważniejsze tendencje polityki wypłat spółek europejskich. Spółki europejskie charakteryzują się wyższą niż pozaeuropejskie skłonnością do płacenia dywidend i rosnącą, chociaż zmienną, wartością wypłat, zarówno dywidend jak i nabywania własnych akcji. Spółki europejskie przeznaczają znacznie większą część zysków netto dla akcjonariuszy niż spółki z innych kontynentów przy czym w ostatnich latach obserwuje się tendencję wzrostu stóp wypłat dywidend w Europie. Wysokie stopy dywidend europejskich spółek kompensują niskie oprocentowanie obligacji skarbu państwa i korporacyjnych. (abstrakt oryginalny)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Companies; Dividend; Stock buyback

PL

Spółki; Dywidenda; Wykup akcji własnych

• Czasopismo: Barometr Regionalny
• Rocznik: 2017
• Tom: 15
• Numer: nr 3
• Strony: 11--28

Twórcy

autor

Mieczysław Kowerski

• University of Management and Administration in Zamość, Poland

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DOI

doi.org/10.56583/br.421