Entertainment Properties Trust (EPR) Declares $0.65 Quarterly Dividend; 5.6% Yield

Entertainment Properties Trust (NYSE: EPR) today announced that its Board of Trustees has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.65 per common share, $2.60 annualized. The dividend is payable January 14, 2011 to shareholders of record on December 31, 2010. The ex-dividend date is December 29, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 5.6%.... more

For Some Smoking Dividend Yields, Look to Tobacco

The dust has settled on a turbulent 18 months in the tobacco industry, during which material excise tax increases and smoking bans were implemented in several markets across the world. The ability to raise prices is the key to earnings growth in the tobacco industry, and while these measures negatively impacted volumes, we continue to believe that the pricing power of the leading manufacturers remains intact. The market appears to agree, with tobacco stocks rising by an average of more than 20% during the last six months, outperforming the 9% increase in the S&P 500. Although we anticipate little upside to the stocks at current levels, dividend yields on tobacco stocks are running in the midsingle digits. We think dividend investors with the stomach for "fat tail" risk should still find... more

10 Dividend Stocks With High Returns on Equity

One of the biggest myths about dividend investing is that companies which pay a dividend offer no growth, and thus they pay the distribution in order to keep their long term investors. Many naysayers believe that a company that does not reinvest all of its profits back into the business should be sold. In my experience as a dividend investor, I have seen only one company which has successfully managed to reinvest all of its profits. The reason why this company was so successful in reinvesting those profits was because of the genius of its asset allocator - Warren Buffett. In retrospect, Warren Buffett is a closet dividend investor, who invests in companies generating sufficient extra cashflows that allows him to exercise his investing prowess and buy assets at a discount.... more

LaSalle Hotel (LHO) Declares $0.11 Quarterly Dividend; 1.7% Yield

LaSalle Hotel Properties (NYSE: LHO) today declared a quarterly dividend of $0.11 per common share, $0.44 annualized. The fourth quarter dividend will be paid on January 14, 2011 to common shareholders of record on December 31, 2010. The ex-dividend date is December 29, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 1.7%.... more

Realty Income (O) Increases Dividend to $0.14425; Yields 1.7%

Realty Income Corporation (NYSE: O), today announced that its Board of Directors has declared an increase in the Company’s common stock monthly cash dividend to $0.14425 per share from $0.1439375 per share. The dividend is $0.577 on an annualized. basis. The dividend is payable on January 18, 2011 to shareholders of record as of January 3, 2011. The ex-dividend date is December 31, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 1.7%.... more

SEI Investments (SEIC) Declares $0.10 Semi-Annual Dividend; 0.8% Yield

SEI Investments Company (Nasdaq: SEIC) today declared a dividend of $0.10 per share, $0.20 annualized. The cash dividend will be payable to shareholders of record on December 23, 2010 with a payment date of December 30, 2010. The ex-dividend date is December 21, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 0.8%.... more

Campus Crest (CCG) Declares $0.16 Quarterly Dividend; 5.1% Yield

Campus Crest Communities, Inc. (NYSE: CCG) has declared a quarterly dividend of $0.16 per common share, $0.64 annualized. The dividend is payable on January 12, 2011, to shareholders of record on December 29, 2010, with an ex-dividend date of December 27, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 5.1%.... more

2 Great, Dividend-Paying Insurance Stocks

Last week my advisory led off with a question from a man concerned about “building a family legacy for future generations.” One of my readers, Bradley K., a Chartered Life Underwriter, was kind enough to send this response: Tell the reader who is worried about estate building to buy life insurance. Proceeds are not income taxable, and policy ownership can be arranged to avoid estate taxes too. Spendthrift provisions can be arranged thru the use of life insurance trusts.... more

Dogs of the Dow: Are High Quality Stocks Also a Dividend Yield Opportunity?

This is an old, but still interesting, investment strategy. The idea is to buy the 10 ‘Dogs’ or worst performers on the Dow Jones Index for a given year. The actual technique is to buy the 10 highest-yielding Dow stocks at the end of each year. That strategy would have worked well in 2010, as the highest yielding Dow stocks clearly outperformed lower-yielding members of the Dow. This chart shows how all the 30 members of Dow Jones Industrials Index performed last year. You can see that the ‘Dogs’ did well: Source: Bespoke Investment Group... more

The Real Dividend Aristocrats of 2011

The S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats is the most prestigious list of dividend stocks. The Dividend Aristocrats index is designed to measure the performance of S&P 500 constituents that have followed a policy of consistently increasing dividends every year for at least 25 consecutive years. This index is a member of the S&P Dividend Aristocrats index series. Dividend Aristocrats constituents exhibit the following characteristics: Underlying Indices - S&P 500.... more