Friday, September 3rd, 2010

About: Altria (NYSE: MO), Lorillard (NYSE: LO), Marlboro, Dividend Genius, dividend stock, dividend stocks, stock dividend, stock dividends

Altria Lights Up Its Dividend
We have noted in the past that regardless of one’s consumption of the tobacco industry’s profits, these stocks are worth a look for income investors hungry for consistent dividends with robust yields. Of [...]

Dividend Stock for Time Warner Cable Edge Higher

About: (Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC), Time Warner Cable,  Sanford C. Bernstein,  Craig Moffett, Barron’s, Dividend Genius, dividend stock, dividend stocks, stock dividend, stock dividends)

Shares of Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) finished the week sharply higher, gaining more than 8% even as the broader market slumped. The stock [...]

REIT Dividend Outlook for 2010

About: (REIT dividends, Vornado Realty Trust (NYSE: VNO), Annaly Capital Management (NYSE: NLY), Inland Real Estate (NYSE: IRC), Public Storage (NYSE: PSA), Hatteras Financial (NYSE: HTS), Dividend Genius portfolio)

            One of the most discouraging aspects of the all those financial sector dividend cuts that investors had to endure last year was [...]

Another North Of The Board Dividend Hike

About: (Enbridge, ENB, Dividend Genius)

            As we’ve said in the past, companies involved in the transportation of oil and natural gas often feature noteworthy dividends and Canada’s Enbridge (NYSE: ENB) is trying to make its dividend even more noteworthy by increasing the quarterly payout 15% to 42.5 cents a share [...]

Time Warner Cable Could Boost Dividend

About: (Time Warner Cable, TWC, Time Warner, TWX)

Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC), which paid a hefty special dividend of $10.27 a share earlier this year after being spun off from parent company Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) may use some of its excess cash to deliver more dividends to shareholders. The [...]

Another Dividend Increase From The Insurance Sector

About: (MHLD, Maiden Holdings)

Insurance stocks have been fertile ground for dividend hunters recently as a spate of companies have announced increased payouts. Bermuda-based Maiden Holdings (Nasdaq: MHLD) continued the trend on Tuesday by announcing it will boost its quarterly distribution by 8% to 6.5 cents a share. The new [...]

Werner Enterprises – Truckin’ Along With A Special Dividend Alert

About: (WERN)

Werner Enterprises (Nasdaq: WERN), the Nebraska-based trucking firm, announced it will pay a special dividend of $1.25 a share in addition to its regular quarterly dividend of 5 cents a share. The $90 million special payout will be made on December 8 to shareholders of [...]

Ugliness Continues With Refiner Dividends

About: (SUN, TSO, VLO)

The bad news regarding dividends just keeps coming out of the oil and gas refining sector. Last month, we told you about Sunoco (NYSE: SUN) slashing its dividend by 50%. Unfortunately, that reduction appears to have been just the tip of the iceberg as Sunoco rival Tesoro (NYSE: [...]

Is This Special Dividend A Wynn-ing Bet?

About: (WYNN, Wynn Resorts)

            Recessions are normally bad news for casino operators and the most recent recession has been no exception. Gamblers have not been heading to the tables in Las Vegas, Atlantic City and other gambling destinations the way they do during good economic times and massive projects [...]

Automatic Data Processing – ADP
Dividend Increases Will They Stay ”Automatic”?

About: (ADP)

Automatic Data Processing
Keeps A Nice Dividend Increase Streak Alive
            Automatic Data Processing (NYSE: ADP), the payroll processing and human resources services company, boosted its quarterly dividend by a penny to 34 cents a share. A dividend increase is usually a good sign, but consider ADP’s [...]