4 Dividend Stocks Showing You the Money

Dividend checks continue to get fatter in corporate America, as more companies jack up their distribution rates. Readers of the Income Investor newsletter can certainly appreciate that kind of thinking. Let's take a closer look at some of the companies that inched their payouts higher this past week.... more

InterDigital (IDCC) Initiates Quarterly Dividend at $0.10; Yields 1%

InterDigital, Inc. (Nasdaq: IDCC) is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors has approved the company's initial dividend policy, pursuant to which the company will pay a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.10 per share on its common stock, or $0.40 on an annual basis. The Board has declared the first quarterly cash dividend to be payable on February 2, 2011 to shareholders of record of the company's common stock at the close of business on January 12, 2011. The ex-dividend date is January 10, 2011. Yield on the dividend is 1%.... more

CreXus Investment (CXS) Declares $0.22 Quarterly Dividend; Yields 6.8%

CreXus Investment Corp. (NYSE: CXS) declared the fourth quarter 2010 common stock cash dividend of $0.22 per common share, $0.88 annualized. The dividend is a 29.4% increase from the current rate of $0.17. The dividend is payable January 27, 2011 to common shareholders of record on December 28, 2010. The ex-dividend date is December 23, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 6.8%.... more

Pfizer (PFE) Increases Quarterly Dividend 11.1% to $0.20; Yields 4.7%

Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) today declared a quarterly dividend of $0.20 per common share, $0.80 annualized. The dividend is a 11.1% increase from the current rate of $0.18. The dividend is payable March 1, 2011, to shareholders of record at the close of business on February 4, 2011. The ex-dividend date is February 2, 2011. Yield on the dividend is 4.7%.... more

CSC (CSC) Increases Quarterly Dividend 33% to $0.20; Yields 1.7%

CSC (NYSE: CSC) declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.20 per common share, $0.80 annualized. The dividend is a 33% increase from the current rate of $0.15. The dividend will be paid on January 13, 2011 to stockholders of record at the close of business on December 23, 2010. The ex-dividend date is December 21, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 1.7%.... more

Agrium (AGU) Declares $0.055 Quarterly Dividend; 0.3% Yield

Agrium, Inc. (NYSE: AGU) has declared a dividend of $0.055 per common share, $0.22 annualized. The dividend is to be paid on January 13, 2011 to shareholders of record on December 30, 2010. The ex-dividend date is December 28, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 0.3%.... more

Colony Financial (CLNY) Boosts Quarterly Dividend 20% to $0.30; Yields 6.1%

Colony Financial, Inc. (NYSE: CLNY) announced today that the Company’s Board of Directors has declared a quarterly dividend of $0.30 per common share, $1.20 annualized. The dividend is a 20% increase from the current rate of $0.25. The dividend will be paid on January 14, 2011, to stockholders of record on December 31, 2010. The ex-dividend date is December 29, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 6.1%.... more

Eli Lilly and Co. (LLY) Declares $0.49 Quarterly Dividend; 5.6% Yield

Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) today declared a quarterly dividend of $0.49 per share of outstanding common stock, $1.96 annualized. The dividend is payable March 10, 2011 to shareholders of record at the close of business on February 15, 2011. The ex-dividend date is February 11, 2011. Yield on the dividend is 5.6%.... more

11 High Yield Stocks to Consider Now

Approximately once per month I run a high-yield momentum screen using the free service on Finviz and post the results. Last month's list is here. Returns for the last month were 3.31% including dividends (2.52% before dividends) versus 3.23% for SPY and 0.19% for SDY, the S&P Dividend ETF. Once again he top performing stock from last month's list was Qwest Communications (Q) returning 7.95% excluding its $.08 dividend while Pepco Holdings (POM) was the worst performing at -3.45% (excluding its $.27 dividend). The strategy has done well this year and is one I continue to track because of its promise. In recent months I have also done a variation of this strategy with the Dividend Champions list in which I only search stocks that have had a history of raising dividends for 25+ years.The... more

Electro Rent (ELRC) Declares $0.15 Quarterly Dividend; 3.8% Yield

Electro Rent Corporation (Nasdaq: ELRC) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.15 per common share, $0.60 annualized. The dividend will be paid on January 10, 2011 to shareholders of record as of December 20, 2010. The ex-dividend date is December 16, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 3.8%.... more