Payout ratio the percentage of earnings paid out in dividends. it is calculated by dividing dividends per share by earnings per share.

派息比率股息占盈利的百分比。计算方法为每股股息除以每股盈利。

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Mr Scheepbouwer plans to stay until at least next year, when he expects dividends per share to be about 50% above the level in the peak bubble year of 1999.

Scheepbouwer先生计划至少留任到第二年，他预计介时每股分红比在泡沫巅峰期的1999年水平高出50%。

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Occasionally this floor is breached-in 1933 American earnings per share dropped below dividends.

偶尔遮羞布会被揭开—在1933年美国公司每股收益低于每股股利。

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Pessimists point to 1931-35, when dividends per share in America fell by 45% from peak to trough.

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So dividends per share have gone up for eight straight years and the company aggressively buys back shares, giving investors strong incentives to remain onboard despite all the bad news from Washington.

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The company has been reporting record revenues and returns for the last several years dividends per share are four times higher than when current CEO Bob Stevens took the helm in 2004 but everybody in the business knows that harder times lie ahead.

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