7 Stocks With Attractive Yields

Investors should pay attention to the following metrics as they could prove to be useful during the selection process. Current Ratio is obtained by dividing the current assets by current liabilities. This ratio allows you to see if the company can pay its current debts without potentially jeopardising their future earnings. Ideally, the company should have a ratio of 1 or higher. Operating cash flow is generally a better metric than earnings per share because a company can show positive net earnings and still not be able to properly service its debt; the cash flow is what pays the bills. Levered free cash flow is the amount of cash available to stock holders after interest payments on debt are made. A company with a small amount of debt will only have to spend a modest amount of money on... more

PS Business Parks, Inc. Announces Tax Treatment of 2011 Dividends

PS Business Parks, Inc. (NYSE: PSB) announced today the tax treatment of the Company’s 2011 dividends. For the tax year ended December 31, 2011, 100.0% of distributions for the common stock and all the various series of preferred stock for all four quarters were classified as ordinary income. The Company did not declare a capital gain distribution, nor did it have any undistributed long-term capital gain for 2011.... more

Winmark Corporation Announces Quarterly Cash Dividend and Special Dividend

Winmark Corporation (Nasdaq: WINA) announced today that its Board of Directors has approved the payment of a quarterly cash dividend to shareholders. The quarterly dividend of $0.03 per share will be paid on March 1, 2012 to shareholders of record on the close of business on February 8, 2012. Additionally, the Board of Directors has approved the payment of a special dividend to shareholders. The special dividend of $5.00 per share will be paid on March 1, 2012 to shareholders of record on the close of business on February 8, 2012. The total amount of the special dividend payment will be approximately $25.0 million based on the current number of shares outstanding. Future dividends will be subject to Board approval.... more

Greene County Bancorp, Inc. Announces Quarterly Cash Dividend

Greene County Bancorp, Inc. (Nasdaq: GCBC) today announced that its Board of Directors has approved the continuation of the Company’s regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.175 per share. The dividend reflects an annual cash dividend rate of $0.70 per share.... more

Berkshire Income Realty Announces Tax Treatment for 2011 Dividends Paid

Berkshire Income Realty, Inc. (NYSE Amex Equities: BIR.PR.A), (NYSE Amex Equities: BIR_PA), (NYSE Amex Equities: BIRPRA), (NYSE Amex Equities: BIR-A), (NYSE Amex Equities: BIR.A), (NYSE Amex Equities: BIR/PRA) (the “Company”) announced today that the tax treatment for dividends paid on the Series A Preferred Stock during 2011 has been finalized. Total dividends of $2.25 per share of Series A Preferred Stock, or 9% of its $25 per share liquidation preference, were paid in quarterly installment during the year ended December 31, 2011. Of the total per share dividends paid by the Company, $2.25, or 100%, is taxable as a capital gain distribution reported on Form 1099-DIV, box 2a.... more

Heartland Financial USA, Inc. Declares Cash Dividend

Heartland Financial USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: HTLF), announced that its board of directors has approved a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.10 per share on the company's common stock payable on March 9, 2012 to stockholders of record at the close of business on February 24, 2012. At December 31, 2011, there were 16,484,790 common shares outstanding listed on the Nasdaq Market under the symbol HTLF.... more

B&G Foods Announces Tax Treatment of Common Stock Dividends Paid in 2011

B&G Foods, Inc. (NYSE: BGS) today explained the tax treatment for dividends paid in 2011 on the Company’s common stock. Holders are urged to check their 2011 tax statements received from brokerage firms in order to ensure that the cash distribution information reported on such statements conforms to the information reported herein.... more

Pinnacle West Declares Quarterly Dividend; Announces 2011 Fourth-Quarter Conference Call

Pinnacle West Capital Corporation’s (NYSE: PNW) Board of Directors today declared a quarterly dividend of $0.525 per share of common stock, payable on March 1, 2012, to shareholders of record on February 1, 2012.... more

EQT Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend

The Board of Directors of EQT Corporation (NYSE: EQT) today declared a quarterly cash dividend of 22 cents per share payable March 1, 2012, to shareholders of record at the close of business on February 17, 2012.... more

Plum Creek Timber: Dividend Dynamo or Blowup?

Dividend investing is a tried-and-true strategy for generating strong, steady returns in economies both good and bad. But as corporate America's slew of dividend cuts and suspensions over the past few years has demonstrated, it's not enough simply to buy a high yield. You also need to make sure those payouts are sustainable.
Let's examine how Plum Creek Timber (NYSE: PCL) stacks up. In this series, we consider four critical factors investors should examine in every dividend stock. We'll then tie it all together to look at whether Plum Creek is a dividend dynamo or a disaster in the making.... more