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Allegiant Announces One-Time Dividend Of $2/share

FATFlyer From United States of America, joined May 2001, 5668 posts, RR: 17
Posted (6 months 1 week 5 days ago) and read 481 times:

Allegiant has announced a special one-time dividend of $2/share to shareholders of record as of November 30. The dividend will be paid on December 14.
http://ir.allegiantair.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=721022

The cost of the dividend payment is approximately $38 million. As of Sept 30, G4's balance sheet listed $357.1 million in cash and short-term investments.

The last time G4 issued a one-time dividend was on June 1, 2010, the amount of that payment was $0.75/share.

Allegiant currently has no plan to begin issuing a regular quarterly dividend.

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." - Mark Twain

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mariner From New Zealand, joined Nov 2001, 22728 posts, RR: 88
Reply 1, posted (6 months 1 week 5 days ago) and read 481 times:

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Quoting FATFlyer (Thread starter):
Allegiant has announced a special one-time dividend of $2/share to shareholders of record as of November 30. The dividend will be paid on December 14.

Very good news.

I'm still kicking myself that I didn't buy a few Allegiant shares at the time of the IPO.

mariner

aeternum nauta

FATFlyer From United States of America, joined May 2001, 5668 posts, RR: 17
Reply 2, posted (6 months 1 week 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 481 times:

Quoting mariner (Reply 1):
I'm still kicking myself that I didn't buy a few Allegiant shares at the time of the IPO.

You and me both.

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." - Mark Twain

rgreenftm From United States of America, joined Jan 2008, 272 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (6 months 1 week 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 481 times:

I'm kind of surprised any airline is issuing a dividend in this environment. It would seem they would want to hoard cash for the inevitable down turn that seems to be pretty near cyclical these days.

slcdeltarumd11 From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 2456 posts, RR: 0
Reply 4, posted (6 months 1 week 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 481 times:

Cool news! Nice to see Allegiant Giving back. It just seems to be such a well run airline who makes great decisions

ouboy79 From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 4009 posts, RR: 23
Reply 5, posted (6 months 1 week 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 481 times:

Quoting rgreenftm (Reply 3):
I'm kind of surprised any airline is issuing a dividend in this environment. It would seem they would want to hoard cash for the inevitable down turn that seems to be pretty near cyclical these days.

They have relatively very low costs and target markets that are probably more resistant to any downturn. Consider how well they are doing out of Rust Belt cities that haven't had strong recoveries like some oil/gas cities to vacation areas.

Any opinion/comment posted is that of my own and not that of Southwest Airlines Co.

N908AW From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 848 posts, RR: 1
Reply 6, posted (6 months 1 week 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 482 times:

Allegiant has had pretty darn consistent growth and revenue for quite some time -- two very good reasons for a dividend.

'Cause you're on ATA again, and on ATA, you're on vacation!

ytib From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 493 posts, RR: 1
Reply 7, posted (6 months 1 week 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 482 times:

Quoting slcdeltarumd11 (Reply 4):
Cool news! Nice to see Allegiant Giving back. It just seems to be such a well run airline who makes great decisions

Agree, except for the word 'airline', it is a 'travel company'

FATFlyer From United States of America, joined May 2001, 5668 posts, RR: 17
Reply 8, posted (6 months 1 week 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 482 times:

Allegiant will still have roughly $320 million in cash/short-term investments after the dividend. Total operating expenses in the last quarter were roughly $188 million. I think they still will have a pretty good sized hoard.

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." - Mark Twain

diverdave From United States of America, joined Mar 2010, 230 posts, RR: 0
Reply 9, posted (6 months 1 week 4 days ago) and read 480 times:

It's quite likely they are issuing the dividend before the expiration of the Bush tax cuts, which included a special lower tax rate for qualifying dividends. The maximum tax rate is 15% right now, could go as high as 39.6% on 1/1/2013.

David

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