Sara Lee (SLE) Declares $0.115 Quarterly Dividend; 2.6% Yield

Sara Lee Corp.’s (NYSE: SLE) board of directors today declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.115 per share, $0.46 annualized. The dividend is payable on April 8, 2011. The dividend is payable to stockholders of record at the close of business on March 1, 2011. The ex-dividend date is February 25, 2011. Yield on the dividend is 2.6%.... more

Old National Bancorp (ONB) Authorizes 2.25M Common Buyback; Declares $0.07 Quarterly Dividend; 2.4% Yield

Old National Bancorp (NYSE: ONB) announces a 2.25 million common stock buyback, or about 2.6% of all outstanding. Old National Bancorp's Board of Directors also declared a common stock dividend of $0.07 per common share, $0.28 annualized. This dividend is payable March 15, 2011, to shareholders of record on March 1, 2011. The ex-dividend date is February 25, 2011. Yield on the dividend is 2.4%.... more

Pennichuck Corp. (PNNW) Declares $0.185 Quarterly Dividend; 2.6% Yield

Pennichuck Corporation (Nasdaq: PNNW) has declared a quarterly dividend of $0.185 per share, $0.74 annualized. The dividend is payable on March 1, 2011 to shareholders of record as of February 15, 2011. The ex-dividend date is February 11, 2011. Yield on the dividend is 2.6%.... more

Baker Hughes (BHI) Declares $0.15 Quarterly Dividend; 0.9% Yield

Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE: BHI) has declared the regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.15 per common share, $0.60 annualized. The dividend is payable February 18, 2011, to holders of record on February 7, 2011. The ex-dividend date is February 3, 2011. Yield on the dividend is 0.9%.... more

Sandy Spring (SASR) Increases Quarterly Dividend to $0.08; Yields 1.7%

Sandy Spring Bancorp, Inc., (Nasdaq: SASR) has declared a common stock dividend of $0.08 per share, $0.32 annualized. The dividend is a 700% increase from the current rate of $0.01. The dividend is payable February 16, 2011 to shareholders of record on February 9, 2011. The ex-dividend date is February 7, 2011. Yield on the dividend is 1.7%.... more

Consolidated-Tomoka (CTO) Declares $0.01 Quarterly Dividend; 0.1% Yield

Consolidated-Tomoka Land Co. (NYSE Amex: CTO) declared a dividend of $0.01 per share, $0.04 annualized. The dividend is payable on March 1, 2011, to shareholders of record on February 10, 2011. The ex-dividend date is February 8, 2011. Yield on the dividend is 0.1%.... more

Peabody Energy (BTU) Declares $0.085 Quarterly Dividend; 0.6% Yield

Peabody Energy (BTU) today declared a regular quarterly dividend on its common stock of $0.085 per share, $0.34 annualized. The dividend is payable on March 3, 2011, to holders of record on Feb. 10, 2011. The ex-dividend date is February 8, 2011. Yield on the dividend is 0.6%.... more

Westamerica Bancorp (WABC) Declares $0.36 Quarterly Dividend; 2.8% Yield

Westamerica Bancorporation (Nasdaq: WABC) today declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.36 per common share, $1.44 annualized. The dividend is payable February 18, 2011, to shareholders of record at the close of business on February 7, 2011. The ex-dividend date is February 3, 2011. Yield on the dividend is 2.8%.... more

Griffin (GRIF) Declares $0.10 Quarterly Dividend; 1.4% Yield

Griffin Land & Nurseries, Inc. (Nasdaq: GRIF) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.10 per share, $0.40 annualized. The dividend is payable on March 3, 2011 to holders of record at the close of business on February 22, 2011. The ex-dividend date is February 18, 2011. Yield on the dividend is 1.4%.... more

Time Warner (TWC) Boosts Quarterly Dividend 20% to $0.48; Yields 2.8%

Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) has declared a quarterly dividend of $0.48 per common share, $1.92 annualized. The dividend is a 20% increase from the current rate of $0.40. The quarterly dividend is payable in cash on March 15, 2011 to stockholders of record at the close of business on February 28, 2011. The ex-dividend date is February 24, 2011. Yield on the dividend is 2.8%.... more