D dividend is d cash return to d share holders, after using H progressive earnings to pay out any liabilities along d line. Then d remaining NPAT would be used to gauge how much cash need to be return to d holders, esp when coy dun need so much cash idling ard for cap ops.

In FY08, H + 2H total NPAT was 478.32M. Total cash returned to share holders were H 6cts 2H 32cts, tot 0.38.

In FY 09, H+2H NPAT was declined to 305.657m. Hence, with d decline in profit, coy had to proportionally return less cash to d share holders loh, as d normal expenditure likely variant was not that great. Dun forget d directors fees oh. Heng, unlike bank sector, no bad debt to be written off, normally.

Pse note 08 tot shares was 1068.092m. Whereas it was now 1070.879m.