New Yield Levels to Watch When Intel Hikes Its Dividend

On Friday November 12, Intel (INTC) announced a 15% dividend increase - to 72 cents per share on an annualized basis, effective for the first quarter of 2011.... more

MutualFirst Financial (MFSF) Declares $0.06 Quarterly Dividend; 2.7% Yield

MutualFirst Financial, Inc. (Nasdaq: MFSF) announced Wednesday that it has declared a cash dividend of $.06 per share, $0.24 annualized. The dividend will be payable on December 24, 2010 to shareholders of record on December 12, 2010. The ex-dividend date is December 9, 2010. The yield is 2.7%.... more

Oriental Financial (OFG) Raises Qtr. Dividend by 25% to 5c/Share, Yielding 1.68%

Oriental Financial (NYSE: OFG) raises its quarterly dividend by 25% from 4c to 5c per common share, payable on Jan. 14 to shareholders of record on Dec. 31. The ex-dividend date is Dec. 29. Based on yesterday's closing price of $11.88, the dividend yield moves from 1.35% to 1.68%.... more

Healthcare Stocks That Have Raised Dividends for Over 30 Years

Whether you like the new health care plan or hate the new health care plan, most people would agree that health will be a growing business during the next twenty years, with the baby boomers moving to an age where medical care and medicine becomes ubiquitous. Income investors who are looking for stocks to own for the long term should consider stocks relating to health and medicine in some way.Surprisingly, there are five health care related stocks that have increased their dividends more than 32 years in a row, according to the Dividend Increasing Stocks list at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com. For example, the large pharmaceutical giant Abbott Laboratories (ABT) has boosted its dividend every year for 38 years and currently sports a yield of 3.7%. The company, which has been around since 1888,... more

Repsol (REP) Raises Interim Dividend by 24% to 52.5c/Share

Repsol YPF S.A. (NYSE: REP) raises its interim dividend by 24% to 52.5 euro cents per common share.... more

Kaiser Federal (KFFG) Declares $0.05 Quarterly Dividend; 2.1% Yield

Kaiser Federal Financial Group, Inc. declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.05 per common share, $0.20 annualized.
The dividend will be paid on December 20, 2010 to the shareholders of record as of the close of business on December 6, 2010. The ex-dividend date is December 2, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 2.1%.... more

Univest Corp. (UVSP) Declares $0.20 Quarterly Dividend; 4.3% Yield

Univest Corporation of Pennsylvania (Nasdaq: UVSP) declared a quarterly dividend of $0.20 per common share, $0.80 annualized. The dividend to be paid on January 3, 2011 to shareholders of record as of December 9, 2010. The ex-dividend date is December 7, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 4.3%.... more

Special Dividends Prediction for 2010 Pays Off

In February, I declared that 2010 would be the year of the special dividends. I reasoned that companies would push as much dividend booty toward shareholders as they could to take advantage of the ending 15% dividend tax treatment. I predicted that companies with big insider holdings would pass out incredibly big checks before dividends became taxed as ordinary income (up to 39% next year).That's prediction is coming true:... more

Stage Stores (SSI) Declares $0.075 Quarterly Dividend; 2.1% Yield

Stage Stores, Inc. (NYSE: SSI) today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.075 per common share, $0.30 annualized. The dividend is payable on December 22, 2010 to shareholders of record at the close of business on December 7, 2010. The ex-dividend date is December 5, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 2.1%.... more

Hingham IFS (HIFS) Declares $0.24 Quarterly Dividend; Yields 2.2%; Declares $0.25 Special Dividend; Yields 0.6%

Hingham Institution for Savings (Nasdaq: HIFS) declares a quarterly cash dividend of $0.24 per share, $0.96 annualized. The dividend will be paid on January 20, 2011 to stockholders of record as of January 10, 2011. The ex-dividend date is January 6, 2011. Yield on the dividend is 2.2%. The company also declared a special dividend of $0.25. The dividend is payable January 20, 2011 to stockholders of record as of January 10, 2011. The ex-dividend date is 18, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 0.6%.... more