Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Headline-Worth Dividend Increases From The Media Sector

About: Media giant Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), Time Warner, AOL, News Corp. (Nasdaq: NWS), Class A and Class B shares, Wal Disney (NYSE: DIS), Dividend Genius, dividend stock, dividend stocks, stock dividend, stock dividends)

Media giant Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), buoyed by strength in its film and network businesses, reported [...]

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 [...]

Magic Software Enterprises Announces A Special Dividend of 50 Cents Per Share

About: Magic Software Enterprises (Nasdaq: MGIC)

Most investors view stocks with small price tags and market caps as risky fare and for that reason, this corner of the market often goes ignored, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t opportunities for both capital appreciation and dividends [...]

BCE Dialing Up Dividend Increases

About: (BCE, BCE, Inc. Verizon, VZ, AT&T, T)

            BCE Inc. (NYSE: BCE), Canada’s largest telecom firm, has really been kind to shareholders since scuttling plans to become a private company in 2008. With Thursday’s news of a 7% dividend hike that will take the annual dividend to $1.74 a share in [...]

A Look At Some Goings On Among Energy Sector Dividends

About: (Diamond Offshore, DO, El Paso, Eni, E, Edison International, EIX, Johnson Rice & Co)

            The energy sector is one we’re constantly looking at in an effort to find solid dividends and we’re usually rewarded for our efforts. Given the wide swath of companies that can [...]

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 [...]

Despite Legal Woes Intel Will Boost Dividend Next Year Span

About: (INTC, AMD)

Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), the world’s largest semiconductor maker, will hike its quarterly dividend by 12.5% starting next year, taking its quarterly payout to 15.75 cents a share from 14 cents. News of the dividend hike by Intel is especially impressive given that the company [...]

  Dividend Increases That Will Bring A Smile To Your Face

About: (MDP, MAR, AAN, MCHP, UVV)

 Here are some interesting tidbits from the world of dividends for the past week.
 Meredith Corp. (NYSE: MDP) , a magazine and textbook publisher and operator of radio and television networks said it will keep its quarterly dividend at 22.5 cents a [...]

Sometimes It’s OK When Dividends Stay The Same
About: (NSC, IBM)

             It is rare that we get excited about any company keeping its dividend the same as it was in the previous quarter, but after the dividend shenanigans we’ve seen since early 2008, we believe income investors can find value in companies with lengthy dividend [...]