Friday, September 3rd, 2010

CVS Caremark Cares About Its Dividend

About: (CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS), dividend stock, Dividend Genius)

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 [...]

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 [...]

Big Changes Afoot For Dividend Aristocrats Index

About: (BF.B, Brown Forman, CTAS, Cintas, BBT, BB T, Legg Mason, LM, M&T Bank, MTB, State Street, SST, US Bankcorp USB, Avery Dennison, AVY, Gannett, GCI, Johnson Controls, JCI, General Electric, GE, Pfizer, PFE)

There are dozens, if not hundreds of indexes tracking various sectors of the market, but for [...]

A Strong Dividend Hike And Share Buyback With The Same Stock

About: (ABC, Amerisource Bergen)

            Amerisource Bergen (NYSE: ABC), the provider of distribution services for pharmaceutical companies, said it is hiking its quarterly dividend by 33% to 8 cents a share. The new dividend is payable on December 7 to shareholders of record on November 23. [...]