The controversy over the level of dividends paid by companies is occasional.
Here it is again, at the rendezvous of its calendar fixed on the agenda of the general meetings of shareholders who vote on this occasion their own remuneration.
The economic and health crisis only adds a little salt to the controversy, without removing anything from its confusions and approximations.
On the internet, the Multinationals Observatory - which denounces more than it observes - has entered a campaign.
He calculated that in 2021, for the year 2020, CAC 40 shareholders will receive 51 billion euros in the form of dividends and share buybacks, or 22% more than a year ago. .
A trompe-l'oeil leap because, a year ago, at the very beginning of the pandemic, companies had, in an emergency, cut in dividends.
In 2020, their amount was halved;
the 2019 level has therefore not yet been found.
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