Fifth of global companies twice as likely to cut dividends in 2020

Dividend growth far outweighed profit growth in 2019

Lauren Mason
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Companies that offer high but unsustainable dividends - which the team at Henderson International Income Trust (HINT) suspects account for 20% of all investable firms globally - are now twice as likely to slash their dividends as profits are expected to tumble by more than a fifth by the end of the year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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