With earnings season over and the dividends beginning to flow into our pockets, ASX companies are now announcing their DRP prices.
DRP stands for dividend reinvestment plan.
This is an elective plan whereby shareholders can request that companies use their dividends to buy more stock instead of paying them cash.
Sometimes, ASX companies offer a DRP discount to encourage shareholders to buy more shares.
Each company has its own process for calculating its DRP share price.
Many companies use an average aggregate share price from several days of trading to set the DRP price.
This process usually occurs over a defined period after the dividend is announced, and before it is paid to investors.
People on DRP plans usually receive their new shares on the day that the cash dividends are paid out.
But that's not always the case. It just depends on the company's DRP policy.
Let's take a look at 3 ASX 200 mining shares and their DRP plans.
Each company has announced its DRP share price for this next round of dividends, so we can give you that information, too.
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Invested in Fortescue shares? Here's your DRP price
Fortescue Ltd (ASX: FMG) announced a fully franked final dividend of 60 cents per share payable on 26 September.
Fortescue calculated its DRP share price by taking the average of the daily volume weighted average market price of all Fortescue shares traded over five days from 4 September.
This led to a DRP share price of $18.8233, with no discount applied.
Fortescue shares are currently trading for $19.11, up 1.1%.
Investors will receive their DRP Fortescue shares on 26 September.
How about Northern Star Resources shares?
Northern Star Resources Ltd (ASX: NST) announced a fully franked final dividend of 30 cents per share payable on 25 September.
The gold miner determined its DRP share price by taking the arithmetic average of the daily volume weighted average sale prices of all Northern Star Resources shares sold over five days from 4 September.
There was no discount applied.
This led to a DRP share price of $20.
Northern Star shares are currently $20.96 apiece, up 0.77%.
Investors will receive their DRP Northern Star Resources shares on 25 September.
Evolution Mining announces DRP share price
Evolution Mining Ltd (ASX: EVN) announced a fully franked final dividend of 13 cents per share payable on 3 October.
The miner calculated its DRP share price by applying a 5% discount to the volume weighted average price of Evolution shares traded over five days from 5 September.
This led to a DRP share price of $8.7298.
Evolution Mining shares are trading at $9.44, up 0.64% on Tuesday.
Shareholders will get their DRP Evolution Mining shares on 3 October.
Evolution Mining said more than half of its investors chose to reinvest their final dividend.
Shareholder participation in the DRP was 55.65% of the ordinary issued shares of Evolution, which will result in the issue of 16,689,390 new Evolution shares.
