SL Green Realty (SLG) Declares $0.10 Quarterly Dividend; 0.6% Yield
SL Green Realty Corp. (NYSE: SLG) today reported that its Board of Directors has declared a dividend of $0.10 per share of common stock, $0.40 annualized. The dividend is payable on October 15, 2010 to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 30, 2010. The ex-dividend date is September 28, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 0.6%.... more
Cimarex Energy (XEC) Declares $0.08 Quarterly Dividend; 0.5% Yield
Cimarex Energy Co. (NYSE: XEC) announced that its Board of Directors has declared a regular cash dividend on its common stock of $0.08, $0.32 annualized. The dividend is payable on December 1, 2010 to stockholders of record on November 15, 2010. The ex-dividend date is November 11, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 0.5%.... more
Lennox Int'l (LII) Declares $0.15 Quarterly Dividend; 1.4% Yield
Lennox International Inc. (NYSE: LII) declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.15 per share of common stock, $0.60 annualized. The dividend is payable on October 15, 2010 to stockholders of record as of October 1, 2010. The ex-dividend date is September 29, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 1.4%.... more
J. C. Penney (JCP) Declares $0.20 Quarterly Dividend; 3.3% Yield
J. C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE: JCP) announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend on the Company's common stock of $0.20 per share, $0.80 annualized. The dividend is payable November 1, 2010, to Company stockholders of record at the close of business on October 8, 2010. The ex-dividend date is October 6, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 3.3%.... more
4 Dividend Stocks Showing You the Money
Dividend checks continue to beef up 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
Eleven Stocks on a Dividend Rebound
A company typically initiates a dividend when it plans on paying it for the long term. It is signaling to the market that its operations are steady and self-sufficient enough to start returning profits to loyal shareholders. The danger to a company that lowers or suspends its dividend is frequently a violent market reaction on the down side.As more companies are seeing the first signs of the economic turnaround, the number of dividend increases is rising. It is particularly intriguing when companies, which had cut distributions during the crisis, are starting to raise them again.... more
Seven Foreign Stocks Paying More Than 7% Dividends
I ran the stock screener with the following conditions: Stocks must trade on the NYSE, Market cap. >= $2.0B, Dividend yields must be at least 7%. This search resulted in the seven stocks noted below:... more
9 Stocks That Have Raised Dividends for 25 Years or More
As income investors, we can get caught up in yields... almost to a fault. But there is something else you should be studying that could make just as big a difference to your long-term returns: dividend growth.... more
3 Fat Dividends From Solid Stocks
Many investors lost money over the past couple of years, but the endowments at prestigious universities suffered even worse. Investment performance at Harvard and Yale "badly trailed" the results at the average college, as The Wall Street Journal so delicately put it. I'm shocked -- but not because of these endowments' lackluster returns. With exotic strategies and illiquid investments, Princeton registered a 24% loss in 2009, while Cornell took a 26% hit, and Harvard suffered a 27% drop. Compare those losses to the 18% drop for the median large endowment. Worse yet, many such institutions fund their operating expenses with the capital from endowments like these. If they don't generate capital gains, they may be forced to cut budgets and slash salaries.... more
3 Stocks for Dividend Income
Many investors lost money over the past couple of years, but the endowments at prestigious universities suffered even worse. Investment performance at Harvard and Yale "badly trailed" the results at the average college, as The Wall Street Journal so delicately put it. I'm shocked -- but not because of these endowments' lackluster returns. With exotic strategies and illiquid investments, Princeton registered a 24% loss in 2009, while Cornell took a 26% hit, and Harvard suffered a 27% drop. Compare those losses to the 18% drop for the median large endowment. Worse yet, many such institutions fund their operating expenses with the capital from endowments like these. If they don't generate capital gains, they may be forced to cut budgets and slash salaries.... more