Last year my dividend total grew 26.0 %, while this year I actually slightly increased my growth rate to 26.8 %!
Congrats on surpassing
last years dividends as well.
The third month of 2018 was without any surprises and quiet straight forward, I just saw a slight decrease compared to
last years dividend income.
Not exact matches
Flannery said GE is «keenly aware of the pain» caused by its poor performance and
dividend cut
last year.
The fundamentals for the bank stocks are remarkably similar to where they were
last year, with
dividend yields and price - to - earnings ratios virtually unchanged.
The blame for the sub-zero performance of
last year's top 10
dividend payers fell squarely on a single stock, without which this basket would have rewarded investors with a 7 % gain.
Last year Citi doubled its
dividend and announced a $ 15.6 billion share buyback plan, its biggest ever.
«While the most recent
dividend was paid in May of
last year, we believe there is potential for the company to accelerate this timeline given our estimate of a 14 % FCF [free cash flow] benefit from tax reform and the company's strong underlying cash flow,» he wrote.
Does it go to financial engineering, i.e., increased
dividends and buybacks, which has been the game in the
last several
years?
BNP has paid a
dividend every
year since at least 1998, and
last year investors received $ 2.04 a share.
«We believe the bogey for investors is a 15 percent increase to Apple's total reported capital return number (shares repurchase plus past
dividends), which would imply a $ 150 billion headline number, up from $ 130 billion announced
last year,» said Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, in a recent note.
The company increased its
dividend by 15 percent in 2013 and 8 percent
last year, and said
last April that it plans to continue to raise its
dividend on an annual basis.
Barclays also announced a restoration of its
dividend to 6.5 pence per share for 2018, more than double the
last year's full -
year dividend of 3 pence.
Barclays announced a restoration of its
dividend to 6.5 pence per share for 2018, more than double the
last year's full -
year dividend.
Last year those Permanent Fund
dividend payments hit a record $ 2,072, meaning a family of five would collect a check of $ 10,360 just for living in Alaska.
For that matter, half of the companies that popped up on our
dividend list
last year posted double - digit gains.
Apple also increased its
dividend 15 percent to $ 3.05 a share and said it will expand its share repurchase program to $ 60 billion from the $ 10 billion level announced
last year.
Apple traditionally updates its share buy - back and
dividend program each spring, and the $ 100 billion it added this
year compares with an increase of $ 50 billion
last year.
The company also increased its quarterly
dividend 16 percent, compared with a 10.5 percent increase
last year.
Last year, all the country's major banks passed the tests and then proceeded to splurge on share buybacks and
dividends to investors.
Last year's third quarter
dividend income was $ 311.52.
The boom in buybacks and
dividends has been driven in part by the tax cuts passed late
last year.
The market mostly reacted positively to Crown's latest results on February 22, for which it stressed the recovery in its VIP business in Melbourne and its interim 30 cents
dividend is now regular policy after an announcement
last year that it will now pay a fixed full -
year dividend of 60 cents per share.
The Coca - Cola Company (KO) has paid a quarterly
dividend since 1920 and has increased
dividends in each of the
last 55
years!
-LSB-...] increasing its payout over the
last seven
years and is just three
years away from making it to the
Dividend Achievers list.
This growth rate is the compound annual growth rate of cash
dividends per common share of stock over the
last 5
years.
RGCO's
dividends have increased in the
last 10
years, with DPS increasing from US$ 0.42 to US$ 0.62.
You can see in red the companies that have already increased their
dividend this
year with the purple highlights
last year's increase in that month.
Instead, it looks for TSX - listed companies that have at least $ 300 mln in market cap and have paid and increased their
dividends over each of the
last five
years.
The Minneapolis - based financial services company also announced a
dividend of 90 cents per share, an 8 percent increase over the previous quarter and the 11th quarterly
dividend increase in the
last nine
years.
It holds 60 companies, all of whom have consistently raised
dividends over the
last five
years and have at least $ 300 mln in market cap, though the average is $ 8 billion.
Also, to be included in the Index, companies must have paid and increased thier
dividends over each of the
last five
years.
Buying a Russell 2000 stock that TheStreet Ratings rated a buy yielded a 9.5 % return in 2014, beating the Russell 2000 index, including
dividends reinvested, by 460 basis points
last year.
Over here, February is one of my worst months for
dividends, but still managed to get about $ 16 worth, compared to
last year's $ 1.40 I'm pretty happy with that.
Its already the end of January of 2017 and I'm already ahead in
dividends compared to
last year.
After
last year's solid sprint, which saw the Dogs of the Dow strategy return 30.3 % before
dividends, performance has been decidedly more mixed so far in 2014.
I've made huge strides in the
last couple of
years since I've been a
dividend growth investor.
Tax receipts for those U.S. holders who receive their
dividends in check form are attached to the
last dividend payment of the
year.
Even though I'm still in the early stages here, it's amazing how quickly the
dividend income has grown over the
last year and a half through just regular contributions and reinvestment.
I just consider myself lucky that I happened onto the
dividend growth investing strategy fairly early when I decided to start investing in stocks and then the FI blogging community which I've learned so much from here over the
last year.
As a
dividend growth investor, you can look at several metrics to evaluate the performance of a stock over the
last months,
years or even decades.
Over the
last five
years, Apple has returned $ 233 billion in cash to shareholders through buybacks and
dividends.
Special
dividends are distributed with the
last dividend payment at the end of the calendar
year.
I don't want to sit on the sidelines forever, but I keep thinking that if I wait for the inevitable down turn, and then invest about 4k on each of the 25 best performing stocks (over the
last 10
years) that I could make somewhat of a killing compared to anything I could come up with on my own or in any
Dividend stocks.
Lastly,
dividends have made up a majority of the market's returns over the
last 40
years.
Last year's second quarter
dividend income was $ 453.51.
Last year the company's full
year dividend totalled 72.5 cents.
We have increased our
dividends by 100 % over the
last 3
years, which speaks to the consistent cash flow we generate and our intent to return more capital to shareholders through
dividends.
Cash
dividends accounted for 71 % of the market's overall returns over the
last 40
years.
In fact, PepsiCo has raised its annual payout in each of the
last 45
years, which makes the company a «
Dividend Aristocrat,» a company with at least 25 consecutive years of annual dividend in
Dividend Aristocrat,» a company with at least 25 consecutive
years of annual
dividend in
dividend increases.