No Need To Be Defensive About General Dynamics’ Dividend
About: General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), General Dynamics, Gulfstream jets, Department of Defense contractor
Defense contractor General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), the maker of nuclear submarines, Navy destroyers and Gulfstream jets, said it will raise its quarterly dividend by 10.5% to 42 cents a share from 38 cents. General [...]
Wal-Mart Continues Tradition Of Dividend Hikes
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Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), the world’s largest retailer, has joined the parade of Dow stocks to raise their dividends in recent weeks by announcing an 11% increase to its annual dividend. Wal-Mart will now pay $1.21 a share for 2010 up [...]
Qualcomm To Boost Investor Incentives With Higher Dividend & Buyback
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Semiconductor maker Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM), whose shares are down 30% since the start of 2010 and 10% in the past two weeks, is trying to [...]
Tractor Supply Approves First-Ever Dividend
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Tractor Supply (Nasdaq: TSCO), a supplier of farm ranch products, said it will pay its first-ever quarterly dividend on March 29th to shareholders of record on March 15th.
The Tennessee-based [...]
Headline-Worth Dividend Increases From The Media Sector
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Media giant Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), buoyed by strength in its film and network businesses, reported [...]
Wyndham Worldwide Triples Its Dividend
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Wyndham Worldwide (NYSE: WYN), the hotel franchisor behind the Days Inn and Super 8 lodging brands, said its fourth-quarter rose 40 cents a share, above the company’s previous guidance of 35 [...]
Dividend News For January 26th
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January continues to be a great month in terms of dividend news and Tuesday was a particularly strong day with [...]
CVS Caremark Cares About Its Dividend
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CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS), the drugstore operator and pharmacy benefits provider, upped its quarterly dividend by 15% to 8.75 cents a share from 7.625 cents. The new dividend will be paid on February 2 to shareholders of record on January 22.
This [...]
A Master Limited Partnership Starting Things Off Great in 2010
About: Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP (Nasdaq: CLMT), master limited partnerships (MLPs), Dividend Genius
If you follow our Dividend Genius portfolio, you know that we love master limited partnerships (MLPs). The Dividend Genius portfolio features several MLPs and all of them enjoyed stellar runs in 2009, helping [...]
Pharma Sector Brings A Couple Of Pre-Christmas Dividend Hikes
About: Pfizer’s (NYSE: PFE), Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), Becton Dickinson (NYSE: BDX), Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY), Abbott Labs (NYSE: ABT), JNJ, Merck (NYSE: MRK), Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY) and GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK)
Perhaps Pfizer’s (NYSE: PFE) dividend increase touched earlier this touched off a trend in the [...]
