may be forced to halve the dividend – Today’s Industry

the Situation is so bad for Ericsson that they may be forced to halve the dividend. The analysts said to Sveriges Radio.

Ericsson vinstvarnade on on Wednesday, for the third quarter, when sales shrunk. The news got the stock to plummet by 20 per cent on the stockholm stock exchange on Wednesday. At the same time lacks Ericsson annual ceo since last summer when the previous president and ceo, Hans Vestberg was fired.
the Situation can be so serious that Ericsson be forced to reduce the dividend to shareholders, reports the Swedish Radio.

"the Situation has gone in the wrong direction for a long time when it comes to balansräkningsutveckling and also cash flow. Somewhere, it should also show it in the form of that is a little more conservative with the dividend. I think you should halve the dividend," says Fredrik Lithell, a stock analyst at Danske Bank, Sweden’s the Radio.

last year, public Ericsson out of 3.7 per share. For 2016, the dividend is expected to be raised to 3,77 kronor, according to a compilation of analytikergenomsnittet as the SME Directly made. If Ericsson would cut the dividend, would the consequences for the share to be negative.

"It would be unfortunate to do it from a perspective that they really need to signal that, here, it really does look to be a danger on the fourth. So that it will be up to the company to choose the path now," says Jonas Olavi, nordic head of tactical asset allocation at Alfred Berg, the Swedish Radio, on a possible utdelningssänkning from Ericsson.