Sentences with phrase «year dividend increase»

When it created the index that PID uses, Mergent wanted to employ the 10 - year dividend increase requirement that formed the basis of its domestic Dividend Achievers benchmarks.

I guess the strong base of NWN lies in its 157 years of business history doubled with a 60 consecutive year dividend increase streak.

It pays nice dividend with 23 % dividend growth, 4 year dividend increase history and 21 % annual expected return growth.

25 + Year Dividend Increase Stocks: Companies that have increased their dividends every year for at least 25 years (from Dividend.com).

I guess the strong base of NWN lies in its 157 years of business history doubled with a 60 consecutive year dividend increase streak.

Some years the dividend increase may be north of 10 % while other years shareholders enjoy a modest 4 - 5 % increase.

Some years the dividend increase may be north of 10 % while other years shareholders enjoy a modest 4 - 5 % increase.

LTC Stats Annual Dividend: $ 2.28 Yield: 4.78 % Years Paying / Increasing: 5 years Dividend increase from prior year: 5.3 % Payout Ratio: 73.3 % P / E Ratio: 21.1 EPS: $ 2.28

GIS Stats Annual Dividend: $ 1.92 Yield: 3.42 % Years Paying / Increasing: 13 years Dividend increase from prior year: 8.33 % Payout Ratio: 62.7 % P / E Ratio: 20.83 EPS: $ 2.70

Not exact matches

Choose companies that increase their dividends year after year.

This Toronto - based property and casualty insurance company has increased its dividend by more than 50 % over the past three years while its stock price has climbed from $ 35 to $ 62.

With this Armonk, N.Y. — based technology giant, you're getting a company that's increased its dividend for 18 straight years and has a proven that it can grow its earnings over the long term.

I am pleased to announce that our Board of Directors declared a 7 % increase in our quarterly cash dividend to $ 0.77 per share, marking 14 consecutive years of dividend increases with a compound annual growth rate of about 10 % over that period.

If these increases occur, this will be the sixth consecutive year in which Telus has increased its divided by 10 per cent or more in what Entwistle calls a multi-year dividend growth program, which remains a priority for the company.

The company projects a three per cent increase in revenue growth this year and committed to hiking its dividend 10 per cent in 2016.

One way small investors can imitate that approach: Buying the ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF (NOBL), which owns shares in companies that have increased dividends for at least 25 consecutive years.

Gold miner Northern Star Resources has increased its dividend payout after confirming a 65 per cent jump in full - year profit, on the back of higher gold prices and a reduction in costs.

Shareholders and business - owners of privately - held Canadian corporations can expect a tax increase on dividend disbursements starting next year.

Does it go to financial engineering, i.e., increased dividends and buybacks, which has been the game in the last several years?

The company is up 47 % this year, and it increased its dividend twice since Jan. 1.

Earlier this year, Power Corp. raised its dividend, the first increase since 2008.

Here total return excludes any distribution or dividend increases that may have occurred throughout the year.

Grammer likes to see companies increasing dividends by between 5 % and 10 % every year.

«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.

Stanley Black & Decker has increased its dividend for the past 50 years in a row, and now yields 1.5 %.

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.

At the same time, the company has increased its dividend by 33 % over the past five years, yet its payout ratio is a paltry 9 %.

It has increased its dividend five times over the past five years.

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.

The group chairman, Jose Vinals, said in the same statement that the board «understands the importance of the ordinary dividend to shareholders and intends to increase the full year dividend per share over time.»

For example, Columbia Management expects double - digit dividend increases for S&P 500 stocks this year.

Coca - Cola has increased its dividend for 49 consecutive years, PepsiCo for the past 40.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

If years of dividend increase are not related to profit growth, dividend growth itself may be?

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The first four months of the year saw 169 companies in the S&P 500 index increase their dividends while no companies cut their shareholder payouts, «an event not seen since at least 2003,» Silverblatt says.

Companies in the S&P 500 are on track to give investors more than $ 1 trillion in stock buybacks and dividend increases this year, according to Howard Silverblatt, a senior analyst at S&P Dow...

The Coca - Cola Company (KO) has paid a quarterly dividend since 1920 and has increased dividends in each of the last 55 years!

-LSB-...] NextEra Energy has successfully increased its dividend for 22 years, making it part of the elite Dividend Achievedividend for 22 years, making it part of the elite Dividend AchieveDividend Achievers list.

-LSB-...] Microsoft shows 14 years of consecutive dividend increases.

-LSB-...] increasing its payout over the last seven years and is just three years away from making it to the Dividend Achievers list.

With 43 consecutive years with an increase, ED is part of elite Dividend Aristocrats and Dividend Achievers lists.

Owen's & Minor (OMI) on 01/31/18 (yes I know it's technically January but they usually raise in Feb.) increased their dividend 1 % to $ 0.26 and this marks the 20th consecutive year of increases.

-LSB-...] This year, management announced a 3.6 % dividend increase.

«So our expectation should be that we will continue to increase our dividend and our share buybacks next year and the year after that and the year after that.»

-LSB-...] American Water Works has successfully increased its dividend payments for the pat 8 years.

-LSB-...] Altria has increased its dividend 50 times in the past 48 years.

However, these two consumer goods giants have increased their dividends in the mid single digits in recent years, while relatively tiny Hormel is still growing its dividend in the mid-teens.