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- Emerson Electric Increases Q4 Dividend
- David I. Templeton submits: On Tuesday, Emerson Electric EMR announced a 10% increase in the company's fourth quarter dividend. The new quarterly dividend increases to $0.33 per share versus $0.30 per share in the same quarter last year. The projected payout ratio is approximately 40% based on 2009 estimated...
- External links 2008-11-05
- Vectren: Forty-Ninth Consecutive Dividend Increase
- David I. Templeton submits: On Wednesday, Vectren VVC announced a 3.08% increase in the company's quarterly dividend. VVC is one of Standard & Poor's S&P 1500 companies that have increased its dividend each year for at least the last ten years. In fact, this is the 49th consecutive year...
- External links 2008-10-30
- Standard & Poor's Lowers S&P 500 Index's Expected 2008 Dividend
- David I. Templeton submits: On Tuesday, Standard & Poor's lowered the S&P 500 Index 2008 estimated dividend by 2.8% to $28.05 versus the prior estimate of $28.85. Although S&P lowered the expected dividend, it still remains above the dividend level recorded in 2007, i.e., $27.73. The indicated dividend rate...
- External links 2008-10-22
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- International Dividend Investments Can Diversify Portfolio
- David I. Templeton submits: Dividend growth stocks are not only a U.S. company phenomenom. More investors are looking to non-U.S. investments for dividend growth investment opportunities. For a U.S. investor, access to these types of investments can be obtained via ADRs, exchange traded funds and/or mutual funds. ...
- External links 2008-08-18
- S&P 500: Dividend Cuts Accelerate in November
- David I. Templeton submits: Dividend cuts for companies in the S&P 500 accelerated in November versus the same period last year. Standard & Poor's reports: November cuts aggregate $4.89 billion. The three month total stands at $20.85 billion and...
- External links 2008-12-03
- Kellogg and Johnson & Johnson: Dividend Increases Continue
- David I. Templeton submits: Not all dividend paying companies are reducing their dividend or forgoing dividend increases.Today Johnson & Johnson JNJ announced a 6.52% increase in the company's quarterly dividend. The new quarterly dividend is 49 cents per share versus 46 cents per share paid in the same quarter last...
- External links 2009-04-24
- Pepsico Raises Dividend by 6%
- David I. Templeton submits: Pepsico PEP announced a 5.88% increase in the company's third quarter dividend to 45 cents per share. This compares to a quarterly dividend of 42.5 cents per share in the same quarter last year. The rate of dividend increase for the company is declining from the...
- External links 2009-05-06
- Dividend Increases Are Harder to Come By
- David I. Templeton submits: If dividend increasing stocks were fish in a pond, the catch would be harder to come by. For the first six months of 2009, 65 companies in the S&P 500 Index either cut or suspended their dividend payment. This compares to 20 for the same...
- External links 2009-07-07
- Dover Corporation Increases Dividend
- David I. Templeton submits: Today, Dover Corp. DOV announced it was increasing its 3rd quarter dividend by 4%. The new quarterly dividend increases to 26 cents per share versus 25 cents per share in the same period last year. The estimated payout ratio on the new dividend increases to 57%...
- External links 2009-08-07
- Consumer Staple Co Supervalu Cuts Dividend
- David I. Templeton submits: Last week Dividend Aristocrat Supervalu SVU cut the company's dividend by 50%. SVU becomes the first consumer staples stock to reduce its dividend. The new quarterly dividend is reduced to 8.75% from 17.5%.The company's second quarter earnings came in at 35 cents per share versus...
- External links 2009-10-26
- Valspar and Harsco Corp.: Dividend Increases
- David I. Templeton submits: Both Harsco Corp. HSC and Valspar Corp. VAL announce increases in each company's quarterly dividend. Both company's are included in S&P's list of firms in the S&P 1500 that have increased their cash dividend payments for at least 10 years. Valspar: ...
- External links 2008-12-12
- Dividend Actions Not as Bad as News Suggests
- David I. Templeton submits: Standard & Poor's maintains a monthly dividend action report on thousands of publicly traded firms. For the 12-month period ending July 31, 2008, S&P reported the number of increases declined 17.4% on a year over year basis. As detailed in the chart below, the number of...
- External links 2008-08-29
- RPM International Announces 36th Consecutive Annual Dividend Increase
- David I. Templeton submits: For the 36th consecutive year, RPM International RPM announced a YOY increase in its quarterly dividend to 20.5 cents per share. This compares to a quarterly dividend of 20 cents per share in the same period last year: a 2.5% increase.The estimated payout ratio is 65%...
- External links 2009-10-09
- Dividend Growers on the S&P 1500 Index
- David I. Templeton submits: Standard & Poor's recently assembled a list of dividend growth stocks screened from the S&P 1500 Index SPSUPX. S&P based the below list on those companies that have paid increasing annual cash dividends for the past ten years and have an actual 2008 and estimated 2009...
- External links 2009-12-17
- Dividend Aristocrats Handily Outperforming Main Indexes in 2008
- David I. Templeton submits: Three of the major U.S. domestic indexes (Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 Index & Nasdaq Composite Index) had a positive return for the month of August. However, the S&P's Dividend Aristocrats did outperform the three aforementioned benchmarks in August and YTD through August 29, 2008.Nasdaq...
- External links 2008-08-31
- Keep an Eye on Mid-Cap Dividend Paying Stocks
- David I. Templeton submits: One area of the market investors can find dividend paying stock opportunities is in the midcap value universe. Standard & Poor's notes: As a whole, the Standard & Poor’s MidCap 400 index boasts a dividend yield of 1.5%. But when the index is divided...
- External links 2008-09-14
- S&P Dividend Payers Did Well in April
- David I. Templeton submits: For the month of April, the dividend payers in the S&P 500 Index ($INX) generated a return of 17.87% versus the S&P 500 return of 9.57%. The non payers in the index did outperform the payers by generating a return of 20.21%. Over time though, dividend...
- External links 2009-05-02
- Dividend Aristocrats Outperforming Market
- David I. Templeton submits: The performance of Standard & Poor's Dividend Aristocrats is holding up well on a year to date basis. Through August 8, 2008, the market cap weighted rate of return for the Aristocrats is approximately -4.4% versus the S&P 500 Index return of -12.2%. Out...
- External links 2008-08-07
- Dividend Payers' Respectable Performance in July
- David I. Templeton submits: For the month of July, dividend payers in the S&P 500 Index generated an average return of 9.56%. This compares to the return of the non-payers of 9.76%. The return for the payers is certainly respectable given they have been laggards this year. On a year...
- External links 2009-08-04
- S&P 500: Dividend Payers Outperform Non-payers
- David I. Templeton submits: The dividend payers in the S&P 500 Index have outperformed the non-payers on an average return basis in November, year to date and over the last 12-months as detailed in the below table. On a cap weighted basis though, the S&P 500 Index has outperformed...
- External links 2008-12-02
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