They will be entitled to receive payment of this dividend on Jan. 14, the company said.
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In return the companies pay the Treasury a 10% dividend on those shares.
But if the company pays a dividend, you get the dividend on both your vested stock and your unvested stock.
All pay quarterly dividends in the 14-18% range, and a new entrant, Armour Residential REIT ( ARR), is even paying a 19% annualized dividend on a monthly basis.
He said he thought Fannie Mae would never fail, but he denied that he told the client that there was an implicit guaranty that the government would pay the dividend on the preferred stock if Fannie couldn't pay it.
Even with the payout, Microsoft has piled up a huge cash position in recent years, and thus could easily finance a large acquisition or, should the mood strike its board, lay another special dividend on shareholders or simply increase its payout.
Cendant (nyse: CD - news - people ) was up 1.5%, after the company set a dividend on it common stock for 2004, and Waste Management (nyse: WMI - news - people ) said it was cutting 880 white collar jobs from its workforce, in a move to scale down expenses.
Think of this cap rate as the dividend yield on your investment, comparable to the dividend you get on a real estate investment trust.
The key thing to remember when making a dividend play is to focus very little on the dividend that a company is paying right now and instead drill in on the dividend that they could be paying a year from now.
That value depends in part on the expected dividend yield on the underlying shares.
The 4% dividend yields on these names generated probably 50% of your return, too.
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Below is a dividend history chart for APA.PRD, showing historical dividend payments on Apache Corp.
With a 2.80% yield, Cisco was already one of the best dividend payers on the market.
Let me give you some simple math: The dividend yield on the U.S. stock market is 1.5%.
Also extraordinary is that the dividend yields on blue chip stocks remains in the 4% to 5% range.
He thought that the dividend yield on American and European equities would eventually exceed the yield on government bonds.
Boosting the group of late: smart phone growth, an extension on dividend tax rates and a compromise on net neutraility.
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While the dividend yield on the market today is an above-average 4%, the yield during the depths of '82 was more than 5.5%.
PRE, showing historical dividend payments on Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.
Dividend yields on companies that make PCs or parts have risen this year, both on falling share prices and direct appeals from corporations to investors.
Universal policies became attractive because they offered a higher rate of return (the dividend) on the savings component than one could get from old-fashioned whole life.
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Dividend income may not be the only benefit: According to research from ING Bank, there appears to be a healthy dividend effect on stock outperformance in emerging Europe.
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PRU, showing historical dividend payments on Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc.
The dividend yield on the index (dividends divided by the stock price) is just 2.1% a fraction of historic averages, and barely enough to keep pace with current, subdued inflation.
He seems to be making the right moves -- cutting costs, eliminating the dividend early on, revamping product plans, mortgaging assets to raise money to fund the turnaround, etc.
Also, the dividend yield on Continental European companies is at an all-time high with 47% of the market capitalization of Europe offering a dividend yield above the respective government bond yield, Credit Suisse says.
Those currently of a more bullish persuasion love to tout the notion that somehow the 2% dividend yield on large cap equities is attractive because it is higher than the 1.6% yield on the 10-year Treasury.
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So, we just felt that because the fund strives for capital appreciation, as well as income, we found that there was a little bit of misnomer or misunderstanding regarding a fixed dividend payment on a regular basis.
The roundtable has been accused of ignoring some valuable components of pay, such as pension benefits and dividend payments on restricted shares held by bosses, and of understating the value of options and other equity grants made to them.
All of these companies pay a dividend north of 3% and with payout ratios between 50% and 58% offer protection from a dividend cut on the downside, coupled with some room to increase the payout ratio for some upside.
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