Capita predicts 'year of no dividend growth' as payouts stall

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Dividends paid out by UK companies this year are expected to undershoot previous estimates as the impact of the strong pound hammers payouts, Capita's latest Dividend Monitor has warned.

Despite a recent decline in the value of sterling, a strong pound has nonetheless hurt companies reliant on dollar-denominated income for most of the year, impacting previous forecasts which predicted dividends would top £100bn. In its latest report, Capita has cut its forecast for 2014 from £101.8bn to a headline figure (which includes special dividends) of £97.1bn. While 2014's figure is still sharply higher than the previous year, when total dividends came in at £80.3bn, almost a fifth of this year's payout comes from one-off special dividends. Underlying dividend growth has eff...

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