In the case of a company higher retained earnings will result in a lower dividend paid out to shareholders.

在如此高的公司将被调低留存收益发放股利给股东。

The 9 per cent interest rate, which is line with that paid by UBS in its recent issue, represents a 5 percentage point after tax premium to its dividend.

摩根士丹利支付给中投公司的年利率为9%（与瑞银近期发行的证券利率一致），与其税后股息相比有5个百分点的溢价。

We gave shares to almost all of our employees as part of their compensation and we hoped that would motivate them and make them feel a part of the company but we never paid them a dividend.

我们几乎将所有股票都发给了员工，作为他们的薪酬，希望能这样激励他们，让他们感到，自己是公司的一份子，但是我们从不发放股利。

Today's final dividend of 2.2p means Premier will have paid a total dividend of 6.5p a share in 2007, down from 12p a share a year ago.

今天2.2英镑的末期股息意味着该公司将在2007年总共支付每股6.5英镑的股息，低于去年的12英镑。

It's changing the number of shares outstanding, so the value of the company declines by the same amount; it has to, as if they had just paid a dividend.

它改变了发行股数，所以公司价值减少了相同的数量，必须如此，就好像支出了股利一样。