3M Is The Latest Dow Constituent To Boost Its Dividend
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Industrial conglomerate 3M (NYSE: MMM), the maker of Post-It Notes and Scotch Tape, became the latest member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average to [...]
United Technologies Boost Its Quarterly Dividend
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After raising its dividend for 14 consecutive through 2008, industrial conglomerate United Technologies (NYSE: UTX) took a year off from dividend hikes in 2009. That’s not surprising given the weak economy, [...]
GE Says Restoring Dividend Is First Priority, Aims To Increase Payout By 2011
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General Electric (NYSE: GE), the Dow component and formerly the biggest dividend payer in dollar terms, said last week restoring its dividend is a top [...]
Sail The High Seas With A Dividend Increase From Nordic American Tanker
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Oil shipping firm Nordic American Tanker (NYSE: NAT) has been a member of the Dividend Genius portfolio for a while now and since we added [...]
Pentair: A Dividend Stock That Is Sure to PUMP So Big Earnings Into Your Portfolio
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Before 2009 ended, expectations were in place for a much better year for dividend investors in 2010 than what the previous year brought us. While the new year is still quite young, we are already seeing [...]
Is Cal-Maine’s Dividend Resumption An Egg-Cellent Proposition?
About: Cal-Maine Foods (Nasdaq: CALM)
Over the past couple of months, we’ve blogged about a lot of encouraging news regarding dividends in the food sector. For while there, it seemed like hardly a week passed without a food-related company announcing news of a dividend hike. We view this is a [...]
Big Changes Afoot For Dividend Aristocrats Index
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There are dozens, if not hundreds of indexes tracking various sectors of the market, but for [...]
Steel Giant Nucor Firms Up Dividend
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Nucor (NYSE: NUE), one of the largest steelmakers in the U.S., boosted its quarterly dividend by 2.9% to 36 cents a share from 35 cents. Normally, an increase of less than 3% isn’t much to get excited about, but given some of the problems that have plagued [...]
Another Dividend Increase From The Food Sector
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Athletic apparel and footwear giant Nike (NYSE: NKE) will increase its quarterly dividend by 8% to 27 cents a share from 25 cents. Nike has been steadily boosting its dividend over the past 12 years. The company paid just five cents a share in 1997. While Nike’s [...]
A Tasty Dividend Increase From Sysco
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Sysco (NYSE: SYY), the largest distributor of food and food products to restaurants in the U.S. and Canada, said it will raise its quarterly dividend to 25 cents a share from 24 cents, good for a 4% increase. This is the 39th consecutive year that Sysco has raised [...]
