Toshiba dividend of five year highs flash Q4 profit up by 14 times

According to foreign reports, the Toshiba Co of Japan announced on Friday that it expected this fiscal year to 6.5 yen per share dividends per share last fiscal year, Toshiba Co dividends paid 5 yen per share, Toshiba Co spokesman said that the Toshiba Co paid dividends this year is the highest record since 2000-2001, 2000-2001 Toshiba Co paid 10 yen per share bonus. Toshiba Co spokesman said that we need to consider the first to attract a lot of long-term investment, Toshiba Co's goal is to pay a stable dividend will reflect our company's revenue is growing steadily.

In the global flash memory chip market, Toshiba Co is only lower than South Korea Samsung Electronics Co., the world's second biggest memory chip maker, flash memory chip manufacturing it has been more and more mobile phone and digital music players and other handheld consumer electronic devices using flash chips to help Toshiba Co last year 10-12 month profit over the same period last year increased by 14 times. The Toshiba Co has put this fiscal year profit is expected to increase by 18%.

Toshiba Co said, compared with the previous fiscal year, the fiscal year the company's profits will grow 41% to 65 billion yen (about $556 million), but the Reuters 19 analysts most people expected this year, Toshiba Co profit may reach 72 billion yen.

Toshiba Co announced that the impact of 6.5 yen per share, in the Tokyo stock market, Toshiba Co shares rose by $647 to close at $1.09%. Tokyo stock market index closed up 1.51% on average.