Vodafone to double dividend
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MOBILE phone giant Vodafone today rewarded its shareholders with a 100 per cent dividend increase on the back of half-year profits equivalent to more than Â£340 per second.
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Telecommunications giant Telstra Corp. on Monday revealed details of a 750 million Australian dollar (US$532 million, euro 432.2 million) share buyback that is part of a three-year plan to increase the value of its stock.
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Vodafone made good on its promise to return more cash to shareholders yesterday with a doubling of its half-year dividend and plans to buy back a further Â£2.2bn of shares over the next four months.
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Telecommunications giant Telstra Corp. on Monday revealed details of a 750 million Australian dollar (US$532 million) share buyback that is part of a three-year plan to increase the value of its stock.
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Vodafone buys a controlling stake in Indian mobile phone firm Hutchison Essar for $11bn (Â£5.7bn).
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Goldman Sachs downgraded Vodafone (nyse: VOD - news - people ) to &quot;in-line&quot; from &quot;outperform,&quot; &quot;within the context of an &#39;attractive&#39; sector coverage view in anticipation that it will outperform the market but not the European telecom sector over the next
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Intel Corp. INTC.O, the world's  largest maker of computer chips, said on Wednesday it would  double its quarterly dividend to 8 cents a share, the second  time this year it has doubled its cash payout.
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British Airways' pension deficit is set to double to Â£2.1bn - despite a recent recovery in the stock market.
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Vodafone is to cut costs by Â£2.5bn per year by March 2008. It will do this a combination of Â£1.4bn through cost-saving measures and Â£1.
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BARCELONA/HONG KONG  - Vodafone  shares climbed on Monday after the British mobile phone giant beat rival suitors with an $11.1 billion bid for a controlling stake in Hutchison Essar, India's fourth-biggest cellphone firm.
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Institutional investor concerns that  British-based Vodafone Group Plc might be drawn into its second  U.S. takeover attempt of the year sent the mobile phone giant's  shares falling on Tuesday.
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LONDON Vodafone Group, the world&#39;s largest mobile phone operator, said on Tuesday that it had doubled its six-month dividend and extended a stock buyback by Â£1 billion to increase shareholder returns after sales fell for the first time.
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(InfoWorld) - Vodafone Group intends to keep its stake in Verizon Wireless, despite a proposal submitted by a large shareholder recommending a change in the holding. The issue of Vodafone's 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless comes up during virtually every earnings report from Vodafone. Vodafone typically argues that while it keeps an eye on the investment and probably won't hold on to it forever, growth at Verizon continues, so the investment is sound for now. On Thursday, Vodafone said that Efficient Capital Structures, a group that controls 210,000 shares of the company, submitted several resolutions, including one suggesting that Vodafone either spin off or issue tracking shares of its Verizon Wireless interest. Vodafone is required to submit the resolutions for vote during its annual shareholders meeting July 24. Vodafone said that its share in Verizon has generated significant value and that a change in the structure of that investment would lose some of that value. A tracking share would probably trade low because of limited transparency, Vodafone said. A spinoff would also likely lead to lowered value because of difficulties in tax structures and because the board doesn't think the United Kingdom is the natural place to list such shares. Another resolution from ECS seeks to put a cap of Â£1 billion ($2 billion) on any acquisition or a maximum of Â£5 billion in aggregate acquisitions in any two-year period before 2010 unless the deal gets shareholder approval. Vodafone argues that such a rule would prevent it from competing for assets and would have precluded the company from making some historical buys, such as acquisitions in Romania, Turkey, and India. The proposals from ECS add to pressure mounting on Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin. Last year, around 10 percent of shareholders voted against his re-election to the board. The vote came a few months after Vodafone revealed a Â£14 billion loss for the year ending in March 2006, marking a record loss for a U.K. company.
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Vodafone Group Plc won 5.4 million more  customers over the key Christmas trading quarter, topping  forecasts, and the mobile phone giant on Wednesday reiterated  full-year guidance.
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British mobile phone giant Vodafone PLC doubled its dividend payment and extended its share buyback program after posting a narrower loss Tuesday for the first half of the year.
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British mobile phone giant Vodafone has agreed to buy an 11-billion-dollar controlling stake in India's Hutchison Essar in an attempt to move into the world's fastest-growing mobile phone market.
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LONDON -- Britain's Vodafone Group PLC has agreed to buy a 67 percent controlling interest in Hutchison Essar Ltd., one of India's leading cellphone companies, for $11.1 billion, Vodafone said yesterday.