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The payout ratio calculates how much profit is paid out as
dividends
Payout ratio
D Dividend per share £1.50
C Earnings per share £2.50
E 5 D/C Payout ratio 60%
‘Fast-growth companies don’t pay out dividends because they
need all their money. Our strategy is simple. We search for
companies with a very high payout ratio. We market the fund
at older investors, who are far more interested in steady income
than capital gain. My analysts make a list of all available
companies and place them in order of payout ratio. I use my own
experience as a stock-picker to select thirty or forty companies
which I believe will continue with a high payout ratio. My plan
is to hold the shares for a long time.’
The hapless Jonathan Spurrier was increasingly the target of
Jerry’s barbs. Jonathan was once on the phone, trying hard to
raise some more funds from a tough-talking individual. Jonathan
was useless at picking investments and hated explaining just how
badly his choices had performed.
‘I want you to know,’ said Jonathan to his potential client, ‘this
is the best way to a small fortune.’
Jerry, walking through the graduate area, shouted out, ‘The best way
to a small fortune is to give a large fortune to Jonathan Spurrier.’
We all died laughing, except for Jonathan and, presumably, his
furious client.
Another time Jonathan had just nished a call to a pension fund.
The client, Jonathan informed us, was looking at the problem of
early retirement amongst the very successful and relatively young.