What does it mean when dividends are negative?

Posted by admin on April 2nd, 2010

I’m looking to do a dividend payout ratio to compare 4 energy & oil companies for a class. 3 of them come out negative because the dividends are negative, and I’m wondering what that means.

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One Response to “What does it mean when dividends are negative?”

1. shipwreck says:

   April 2, 2010 at 12:16 am

   They can not be negative so maybe they are as ratio of losses instead of profits.