Sunoco (SUN) Declares $0.15 Quarterly Dividend; 1.7% Yield

Sunoco, Inc.’s (NYSE: SUN) Board of Directors today declared a cash dividend for the fourth quarter of 2010 of $0.15 per share, $0.60 annualized. The dividend is payable December 10, 2010 to shareholders of record at the close of business on November 17, 2010. The ex-dividend date is November 15, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 1.7%.... more

Communications Systems (JCS) Declares $0.15 Quarterly Dividend; 5.6% Yield

Communications Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: JCS) announced today that the Company's Board of Directors has declared a cash dividend of $0.15 per share of common stock, $0.60 annualized. The dividend is payable to shareholders of record on September 17, 2010. The dividend will be distributed on October 1, 2010. The ex-dividend date is September 29, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 5.6%.... more

4 Dividend Aristocrats with Attractive Yields for Value Investors

Low yields are common, especially with the return of risk averse thinking. Dividend Aristocrats remain an excellent source of investment ideas for obtaining higher yields. These companies have track records with a minimum 25 consecutive years of higher dividends, and many have streaks of 30-40 or more years. Last year was a reminder than long streaks do not guarantee the future, as stockholders of General Electric (GE), Pfizer (PFE) and Masco (MAS) found out. As with all investments, investigate before investing. Yields over 4% bring a little extra risk.Below is a list of 4 Dividend Aristocrats with tempting 3+% yields which are well covered.... more

Dow Dividend Stocks - Top 5 Covered Calls

Maybe you want to buy blue chip Dow dividend stocks, but you don’t have much faith in price appreciation, given the market’s performance in 2010 thus far. Selling covered calls often allows you to lock in a much higher yield than the current dividend yield of most dividend paying stocks. We screened for the highest at the money covered call trades for the Dow 30, and came up with yields ranging from 8.54% to 10.17%. Pretty nice yields, especially when you consider that the annual dividend yields for these 5 dividend stocks range from just 2.18% to 3.20%. Given that these option trades are all 6 to 8 month trades, their annualized yields are even higher, as you can see below:... more

World Fuel Services (INT) Declares $0.0375 Quarterly Dividend; 0.6% Yield

World Fuel Services Corporation (NYSE: INT) announced today that its board of directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.0375 per share, $0.15 annualized. The dividend is payable on October 6, 2010 to shareholders of record on September 17, 2010. The ex-dividend date is September 15, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 0.6%.... more

Care Investment Trust (CRE) Declares THree-for-Two Stock Split; To Be Paid in Form of a Dividend

Care Investment Trust Inc. (NYSE: CRE) today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a stock split in the ratio of three-for-two to be effected in the form of a common stock dividend. Each shareholder of record as of the close of business on September 13, 2010, will receive a dividend equal to one-half of one share of the Company's common stock for each outstanding share held on the record date. The dividend will be distributed to shareholders on September 20, 2010.... more

IncrediMail (MAIL) Declares $0.45 Interim Dividend

IncrediMail Ltd. (Nasdaq: MAIL) today announced that its Board of Directors has approved an interim cash dividend for 2010 of $0.45 a share, totaling approximately $4.3 million. The record date has been set as the close of the Nasdaq Global Market on September 20, 2010. The dividend will be payable to the Company's shareholders of record on or about October 5, 2010. The ex-dividend date is September 18, 2010.... more

Daxor Corp. (DXR) Declares $0.25 Dividend

Daxor Corporation (AMEX: DXR) declares a dividend of $0.25 per share. The dividend will be paid to shareholders of record as of Wednesday, September 15, 2010. The dividend will be paid on Thursday, September 30, 2010. The ex-dividend date is September 28, 2010.... more

National American University Holdings (NAUH) Declares $0.0275 Quarterly Dividend; 2.3% Yield

National American University Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: NAUH) announced that the Company's Board of Directors declared a cash dividend in the amount of $0.0275 per share, $0.11 annualized. The dividend is to be paid on or about October 8, 2010, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on September 30, 2010. The ex-dividend date is September 28, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 2.3%.... more

Carnival Corp (CCL) Declares $0.10 Quarterly Dividend; 1.2% Yield

Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE: CCL) declares a quarterly cash dividend of $0.10 (U.S.) per share, $0.40 annualized. The dividend is payable on September 10, 2010, to shareholders of record on August 20, 2010. The ex-dividend date is August 18, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 1.2%. Dividends payable in sterling were converted from U.S. dollars at the exchange rate quoted by the Bank of England in London at 12 noon on September 1, 2010 (US$1 = 64.96037 pence). Accordingly, the dividend payable in sterling on September 10, 2010, will be 6.49604 pence per share.... more