Dividend Champion And Contender Highlights: Week Of June 14

A weekly summary of dividend activity for Dividend Champions and Contenders.
Companies which changed their dividends.
Companies with upcoming ex-dividend dates.
Companies with upcoming pay dates.
Introduction
The Dividend Champions list is a monthly compilation of companies which have consistently increased their annual dividend payouts, and the latest edition may be found here. However, since this list is only produced once per month, the data in it can quickly get out of date. Furthermore, with close to 800 companies on the list, the sheer amount of data can quickly become overwhelming. In this weekly series, I highlight recent and upcoming dividend related activity for companies holding Champion (25+ years) and Contender (10-24 years) status.
In the data presented below, Yield is forward annualized and Years reflects the up-to-date streak, including dividends declared since the last edition of the Dividend Champions list.
Dividend Changes
In the past week, the following companies on the Champion or Contender lists declared dividends which changed from their previous payouts.
Increases:
Company
Symbol
Ex-Div
Pay
Old Rate
New Rate
Increase
Yield
Years
National Fuel Gas
(NFG)
6/29
7/15
0.435
0.445
2.30%
4.29%
50
Realty Income Corp.
(O)
6/30
7/15
0.233
0.2335
0.21%
4.64%
27
Oil-Dri Corp. of America
(ODC)
8/13
8/28
0.25
0.26
4.00%
3.15%
18
Target Corp.
(TGT)
8/18
9/10
0.66
0.68
3.03%
2.33%
53
W.P. Carey Inc.
(WPC)
6/29
7/15
1.04
1.042
0.19%
6.03%
23
W.R. Berkley Corp.
(WRB)
6/22
6/30
0.11
0.12
9.09%
0.84%
19

Decreases:
Company
Symbol
Old Rate
New Rate
Decrease
Years
Urstadt Biddle Properties
(UBA)
0.28
0.07
-75.00%
26

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