The long and the short of it is, the corp has only really started being profitable since around the 22/05/09, prior to this point we were spending more than we made, and we had less people active than we currently do. So any dividend we could do would be a small one indeed.
The dividend I wanted to make was to only come from profits made from sales on the market, so I havent counted for ratting income or player donations. Suffice to say turning the corner and making profit of some description is a great thing, and can only bode well for the future.
The initial offering raised:
3,680,000,000.00. Of which
2,300,000,000.00 was used to purchase the
Capital Drone Bay Blueprint & the
Chimera Blueprint, and the rest being used for towers and general corp upkeep during the time alot of us went riding bikes
Our income from 22/05 from market sales totalled:
502,381,985.32 ISK.
Our purchases during the same period (tower fuel, skill books, bpcs etc) totalled:
257,335,255.32Our profit on these was therefore:
245,046,730.00So I ask you, our shareholders and corpmembers, do you want me to do a dividend (%age as yet unknown, but small :S), or are you willing for this dividend to be rolled into the dividend for the next quarter, which will be in September, and all things considered will be after a period of increasingly positive market activity as our caps are about to start rolling off the line.
A forum poll is my choice for this as Mangala alone could easily skew an ingame vote in any direction I choose
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