Nov 23 (Reuters) - Catering giant Compass Group on Tuesday resumed dividend payouts, forecast fiscal 2022 underlying profit margin to be more than 6%, and reported a higher annual profit, as it benefits from economic reopenings and record new business wins.

The world's largest catering company, which had suspended dividends in April 2020 to deal with the blow from COVID-19, said it would pay an annual dividend of 14 pence per share.

Its underlying operating profit for the year ended Sept. 30 rose 55.4% to 811 million pounds ($1.09 billion).

"With ongoing mobilisation costs and inflationary pressure, further improvement will be weighted towards the second half of the year as we return to underlying margin of around 7% by year end," said Chief Executive Office Dominic Blakemore. ($1 = 0.7470 pounds) (Reporting by Yadarisa Shabong in Bengaluru; editing by Uttaresh.V)