Teekay Tankers (TNK) Declares $0.34 Quarterly Dividend; 1% Yield

Teekay Tankers Ltd. (NYSE: TNK) today announced that its Board of Directors has voted to declare a cash dividend of $0.34 per share, $1.36 annualized. The dividend is payable on August 27, 2010 to all shareholders of record on August 20, 2010. The ex-dividend date is August 18, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 1%.... more

Service Corporation Int'l (SCI) Declares $0.04 Quarterly Dividend; 2% Yield

Service Corporation International (NYSE: SCI) has approved a quarterly cash dividend of $0.04 per share of common stock, $0.16 annualized. The quarterly cash dividend announced today is payable on October 29, 2010 to shareholders of record at the close of business on October 15, 2010. The ex-dividend date is October 13, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 2%.... more

Primerica (PRI) Declares $0.01 Quarterly Dividend; 0.2% Yield

Primerica, Inc. (NYSE: PRI) today approved payment of a quarterly dividend of $0.01 per common share, $0.04 annualized. The dividend will be payable on September 10, 2010 to stockholders of record as of August 25, 2010. The ex-dividend date is August 23, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 0.2%.... more

Multi-Color (LABL) Declares $0.05 Quarterly Dividend; 1.5% Yield

Multi-Color Corporation (Nasdaq: LABL) announced today that its Board of Directors declared the Company's quarterly cash dividend of $0.05 per common share, $0.20 annualized. The dividend is payable September 1, 2010, to shareholders of record at the close of business on August 23, 2010. The ex-dividend date is August 19, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 1.5%.... more

Inside AFLAC's Dividend Increase

As promised, AFLAC (AFL) just announced a dividend increase for the fourth quarter of 30 cents per share. This is an increase of 7.1% over the current dividend of 28 cents per share. This is AFLAC’s 28th consecutive annual dividend increase and it will continue AFLAC’s membership in the S&P Dividend Aristocrats. This dividend, however, is a rather wimpy and back-handed way to deliver your 28th in a row. They're doing it just so they can say they've done it.... more

33 Dividend Champions to Consider

As a dividend growth investor, two of the best dividend lists for further research that I have focused on have been the S&P Dividend Aristocrats and the Dividend Achievers Indexes. The first list focuses on stocks which have increased dividends for 25 consecutive years in row, while the second list focuses on stocks which have consistently raised distributions for over one decade. The Dividend Aristocrats index has supposedly outperformed the stock market over the past five years. In my research I have uncovered many dividend stocks however which have raised dividends for more than 25 years in a row, yet they are not included in the Dividend Aristocrats Index. I discussed this in dividend conspiracies.The limitations behind the dividend aristocrat’s index are that first a company has to... more

Briggs & Stratton (BGG) Declares $0.11 Quarterly Dividend; 2.5% Yield

Briggs & Stratton Corporation (NYSE: BGG) declared a quarterly dividend of $0.11 per share, $0.44 annualized. The dividend is payable October 1, 2010 to shareholders of record at the close of business August 23, 2010. The ex-dividend date is August 19, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 2.5%.... more

Dr Pepper Snapple (DPS) Declares $0.25 Quarterly Dividend; 2.7% Yield

Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc. (NYSE: DPS) today announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.25 per common share, $1.00 annualized. The dividend is payable in U.S. dollars on October 8, 2010, to shareholders of record on September 20, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 2.7%.... more

CAE (CAE) Posts Q2 EPS of C$0.15, Stronger Y/Y; Increases Quarterly Dividend 33.3% to $0.04

CAE, Inc. (NYSE: CAE) reports Q2 EPS of C$0.15, versus C$0.11 reported for the same period a year ago. Revenue for the quarter was C$366.7 million, compared to C$383.0 million in Q209. CAE's Board of Directors has increased the quarterly dividend from $0.03 to $0.04 which will be paid on September 30, 2010 to shareholders of record at the close of business on September 15, 2010.... more

Perrigo (PRGO) Declares $0.0625 Quarterly Dividend; 0.4% Yield

Perrigo Company (Nasdaq: PRGO) today announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.0625 per share, $0.25 annualized. The dividend is payable on September 14, 2010 to shareholders of record on August 27, 2010. The ex-dividend date is August 25, 2010. Yield on the dividend is 0.4%.... more