BREAKING: Global Dividends Forecast to Inch Back from Coronavirus Cliff Edge
LONDON (Reuters) - Dividend payouts by the world’s biggest firms in 2020 will fall by 17.5%- 20%, equivalent to some $263 billion, as a result of the coronavirus crisis, a report on Monday forecast, but could rebound strongly next year.
Although the prediction by investment firm Janus Henderson represents a smaller dividend drop than some had feared at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, it will be the biggest since at least 2009 in the wake of the global financial crisis.
Dividends are a major source of income for both public and private pension funds, but companies trying to cope with the coronavirus cut them by $55 billion, or 11.4%, in the third quarter after a $108 billion or 22% plunge between April and June when uncertainty over the course of the pandemic peaked.
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