Compass, which serves around 3 billion meals a year, said pretax profits rose to 1.2 billion pounds for the year ended Sep. 30, up from 1.1 billion a year earlier.

The company raised its full-year dividend by 10.5 percent to 26.5 pence, returning 1 billion pounds of cash to its shareholders.

(Corrects to show dividend rise of 10.5 percent, not 1.5 percent)

(Reporting by Li-mei Hoang; editing by Jason Neely)