Bristow Group, the Houston-based helicopter and aviation services company, declared a quarterly cash dividend of 12.5 cents a share on Oct. 29, payable Nov. 27 to shareholders of record at the close of business Nov. 13, according to a company release. The amount equals the dividend declared in July. Bristow shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol VTOL.
How much does 12.5 cents come to?
A holder of 1,000 shares receives $125 on Nov. 27, and a holder of 400 shares receives $50. The payment comes 14 days after the Nov. 13 record date, so only shareholders on the company’s books by the close of business that day are in line for it. Four payments at 12.5 cents would total 50 cents a share over a year, a figure the release does not state.
For anyone who owns the stock, the question this payment raises is small but real: where does $125 per 1,000 shares sit between Nov. 27 and the day it gets used? A brokerage account holds the dividend as cash, and what that cash earns while waiting is set by the account, a number printed on the latest statement.
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Did the dividend change since summer?
No. An SEC filing shows Bristow declared $0.125 a share on July 30, with a record date of Aug. 14 and payment on Aug. 28. The Oct. 29 release does not say whether this is a first dividend, a continuation or an increase, and it names no prior amount. The announcement went out at 4:39 p.m. Eastern on Oct. 29, after the stock market’s regular close, from Houston.
The release says the company intends to pay regular quarterly dividends, with each dividend and its record and payment dates subject to the board’s determination after it reviews financial performance. In plain terms, 12.5 cents is what has been declared for November, and each later quarter will be decided when it comes.
The schedule has repeated almost exactly. The July declaration came 29 days before its Aug. 28 payment, and the Oct. 29 declaration comes 29 days before Nov. 27. Both times the record date fell 14 days ahead of the payment date, which leaves a two-week gap between the shareholder list closing and the cash arriving.
For scale, 12.5 cents on 100 shares is $12.50 a quarter, and on 10,000 shares it is $1,250. At the pace the four declared payments would imply, those become $50 and $5,000 a year. Whether that matters to a household budget depends entirely on how many shares sit in the account.
What did the last quarter look like?
Bristow’s second-quarter results, released Aug. 4, showed revenue of $411.8 million, net income of $21.2 million, or $0.70 per diluted share, and adjusted EBITDA of $79.8 million. A 12.5-cent dividend is about 18 percent of that quarter’s $0.70 in diluted earnings per share. Net income came to roughly 5 cents of every dollar of revenue.
“We completed the acquisition of Berry Aviation last month,” Bradshaw said in that release, in remarks that also covered the company’s 2026 guidance. Bradshaw is Bristow’s president and CEO. Neither the dividend release nor the quarterly filing links the dividend to the acquisition.
What does a helicopter operator actually run?
Bristow describes itself as a leading global provider of mission-critical aviation services for government entities, offshore energy companies and other customers. It reports three operating segments: Offshore Energy Services, Government Services and Other Services. The fleet and operations span helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft and unmanned aerial systems.
The release lists operations in about 20 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Norway and Australia. For a shareholder, that spread means the 12.5 cents comes from a business tied to offshore energy work and government contracts rather than to a single customer or country.
Where does a 12.5-cent check go after it lands?
Dividend money that is not heading straight back into stock has simple, insured homes. The FDIC says standard deposit insurance is $250,000 per depositor, per insured bank, for each account ownership category, which covers a $125 or $1,250 deposit many times over. What varies is the rate the cash earns while it waits.
Shares held inside an IRA put the dividend into the account’s cash balance, where the same question applies to the account rather than to a bank. In an ordinary brokerage account the cash can stay put or be moved out to an insured bank account or a Treasury bill, a choice that takes one decision and repeats itself every quarter the dividend is paid.
The cash line on the brokerage statement shows the balance and what it earns. A dividend left at a rate near zero earns almost nothing for the weeks it sits, while the same dollars in an insured high-yield account or a Treasury bill earn something modest. On one payment the gap is a few cents, and it widens with every quarter and every share.
Will the Nov. 27 Bristow payment land somewhere that earns?
Dividend cash with no plan sits wherever the account’s default puts it. For a 1,000-share holder that is $125 on Nov. 27, and the same default catches the next quarter’s payment too, if the board declares one.
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This article was produced with AI assistance and edited for accuracy against the sources linked above.
Warren Cohen is a finance writer based in Phoenix, Arizona, covering personal finance topics including credit, banking, and beginner investing. He earned his degree in business administration from Arizona State University and began his career working in consumer finance, where he gained direct experience with lending and credit systems. He now writes for personal finance websites and fintech platforms, focusing on clear, practical content that helps readers make informed financial decisions.
