Dividends keep climbing even as profits disappoint

By Max Mason
Updated March 4 2015 - 9:08am, first published 8:58am
Keeping shareholders happy: Companies have stepped up their investor payout while having to slash costs in their businesses to bolster profits.
Keeping shareholders happy: Companies have stepped up their investor payout while having to slash costs in their businesses to bolster profits.

Dividend have grown more than twice as much as earnings in the February reporting season as Australian companies continued slashing costs to satisfy investors' seemingly insatiable appetite for income.

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