How to calculate dividends paid from income statement?

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Griffin 0 Comments

I need to calculate the dividends per share but I don’t know how to get the dividends that a company paid last year from the income statement.

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score 0 · Answer 1 · 2012-12-02T18:03:48+00:00

Most of the times, it is not possible as dividends for common stock are paid out of the reserves after the profit is calculated. The only dividends paid that appear in the income statement are for redeemable preference shares or other shares that are debt and not equity.