CenturyLink (CTL) Declares $0.725 Quarterly Dividend; 8.1% Yield

CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) today announced that its Board of Directors voted to declare a quarterly cash dividend of $0.725 per share, $2.90 annualized. The dividend is payable on September 20, 2010, to shareholders of record on September 7, 2010. The ex-dividend date is September 3, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 8.1%.... more

LNB Bancorp (LNBB) Declares $0.01 Quarterly Dividend; 0.9% Yield

LNB Bancorp, Inc. (LNBB) has declared a third quarter 2010 cash dividend of $0.01 a share, $0.04 annualized. The dividend is payable on October 1, 2010 to shareholders of record on September 4, 2010. The ex-dividend date is September 2, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 0.9%.... more

EMC Insurance (EMCI) Declares $0.18 Quarterly Dividend; 3.5% Yield

EMC Insurance Group Inc. (Nasdaq: EMCI) declared a quarterly dividend of $0.18 per common share, $0.72 annualized. The dividend is payable September 14, 2010 to shareholders of record as of September 7, 2010. The ex-dividend date is September 3, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 3.5%.... more

Penns Woods Bancorp (PWOD) Declares $0.46 Quarterly Dividend; 6.2% YIeld

Penns Woods Bancorp, Inc. (Nasdaq: PWOD) has announced that the Company's Board of Directors declared a third quarter 2010 cash dividend of $0.46 per share, $1.84 annualized. The dividend is payable September 21, 2010 to shareholders of record September 7, 2010. The ex-dividend date is September 3, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 6.2%.... more

BB&T Corp (BBT) Declares $0.15 Quarterly Dividend; 2.7% Yield

BB&T Corporation (NYSE: BBT) today declared the 2010 fourth-quarter dividend of $0.15 per common share, $0.60 annualized. The dividend will be paid November 1, 2010, to shareholders of record as of October 15, 2010. The ex-dividend date is October 13, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 2.7%.... more

TheStreet.com (TSCM) Declares $0.025 Quarterly Dividend; 3.8% Yield

TheStreet.com, Inc. (TSCM) announced today that its board of directors has declared the Company's quarterly cash dividend on its common stock. The cash dividend of $0.025 per share, $0.10 annualized.
The dividend is payable September 30, 2010, to all shareholders of record at the close of business on September 15, 2010. The ex-dividend date is September 13, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 3.8%.... more

First Bancorp (FBNC) Declares $0.08 Quarterly Dividend; 2.6% Yield

First Bancorp (Nasdaq: FBNC), the parent company of First Bank, has declared a cash dividend of $0.08 per share, $0.32 annualized. The dividend is payable October 25, 2010 to shareholders of record as of September 30, 2010. The ex-dividend date is September 28, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 2.6%.... more

First Mercury (FMR) Declares $0.025 Quarterly Dividend; 1.2% Yield

First Mercury Financial Corporation (NYSE: FMR) announced today that on August 19, 2010 its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.025 per share, $0.10 annualized. The dividend is to be paid September 30, 2010 to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 15, 2010. The ex-dividend date is September 13, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 1.2%.... more

Top 10 Dividend Yielding U.S. Utilities

We have comprised a list of the top ten dividend yielding US utilities with market caps of at least $4.0 billion. They include Electric, Natural Gas and Diversified Utilities ranging in size from $4.5 billion in market cap to over $20 billion. The lowest dividend yield listed is 4.97% from the mammoth utility, Southern Company (SO). While the highest yield is 6.14% from First Energy (FE) soon to be First Energy and Allegheny Energy (AYE) combined as their merger announcement in February informed the world. With a soon to be $14 billion plus market capitalization the combined utility will be one of the largest in the US.. The return on equity (ROE) for these companies is solid with an average of 9.7% (one is below 3%). ROE for the industry has trended downward since summer of 2008 along... more

Jarden Corp. (JAH) Declares $0.0825 Quarterly Dividend; 1.2% Yield

Jarden Corporation (NYSE: JAH) today announced that its board of directors declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.0825 per common share, $0.33 annualized. The dividend is payable on October 29, 2010 to stockholders of record as of the close of business on October 1, 2010. The ex-dividend date is September 29, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 1.2%.... more