Unilever delivers dividends to its shareholders on a quarterly basis; the current value of dividends is $0.29 per share (that is slightly more than the $0.25 worth of food the World Food Programme gives to each of the 30,000 registered Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh). Unilever’s top shareholders made millions of dollars this month in dividends.
It is useful to note that dividends are distributed every quarter. That means shareholders expect short term profit, and will not tolerate short term loss. The next disbursement of dividends will be recorded in early May, distributed in June. That gives us a good, quantifiable objective, if we do not receive a positive reply from Unilever this week. We have to reduce those dividends as much as we can over the next 3 months. We need the value per share sink at least below $0.20 .
If dividends are distributed next June to shareholders, and they are disappointed with the value, they may at that point concur that Unilever should condemn the genocide in Myanmar