INTER RAO Lietuva stocks are the most profitable in the list of Europe dividend stocks

AB INTER RAO Lietuva stocks are named as one of the most profitable dividend stocks in Europe and USA. Such information was published by the prestigious Lithuanian business daily “Verslo žinios” (“Business News”).

INTER RAO Lietuva took the first place in the Europe dividend stocks list, while the forecasted earning power of the company dividends for the next 12 months amounts to 11.86 per cent. The second and third places were taken by the French company Neopost and the Dutch enterprise Royal Dutch Shell, whose forecasted earning power is 8.41 and 6.39 per cent, respectively. The top five of the list ends with the Swedish company TeliaSonera and the British enterprise BP – the earning power of their dividends amounts to 5.91 and 5.89 per cent, respectively.

According to the Stockholder’s Agreement of AB INTER RAO Lietuva, it is provided that every year no less than 70 per cent of net income of the respective year should be allocated into paying dividends, unless the Board of the Company, following the interests of the Company in approving the yearly investment programme, would decide that the net profit of the respective year should be invested by the Company.

The list of USA and European companies with the most generous dividend pay out was drawn up by the analysts of UAB FMĮ “Orion Securities”, who systematised the available data for the daily.

It should be noted that only the companies that have sufficient liquidity and qualify under the capitalisation criteria were included in the list rather than those with the absolutely peak profits.