Dividend Payment Downtrend by Addison Wiggin originally appeared in the Daily Reckoning.
Silver Wheaton links its dividend payment to cash generated by operating activities in the previous quarter.
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When that occurs, the investor keeps the premium from selling the calls and collects the dividend payment.
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Cumulative preferred stock buffers the risk of a skipped dividend payment by allowing past due dividends to accrue.
Costco, it seems, is making a large dividend payment this December to help shareholders beat upcoming tax increases.
Evercore Partners is one of the few investment banks that maintained its dividend payment throughout the financial crisis.
Northumbrian Water said its total dividend payment would rise by 6.7% to 11.27p.
On Dec. 4, it announced plans to accelerate a 25-cent dividend payment normally funded in January to Dec. 25.
In other words, the company retained no earnings and probably had to finance its dividend payment in part with debt or equity.
In return, it took an 8% annual dividend payment and told the company to come up with a more restrictive executive compensation plan.
By shifting a 2013 dividend payment into 2012, a company risks having databases lower its annualized dividend growth rate for years to come.
The company also announced a supplemental dividend payment of 50 cents per share Wednesday, in addition to its regular payment of 25 cents, payable June 1.
The latest report put them at less than 1%, and with that, well more than 100% below the average dividend payment for DJIA companies of 2.8%.
That metric is the key to finding companies that will likely have the financial strength to keep up the dividend payment, and moreover, increase the dividend payout over time.
And a large dividend payment may leave some shareholders with unwanted tax bills, whereas a buyback enables individual shareholders to hold on to their shares and avoid undesired tax consequences.
There was plenty of news on the large-cap front Monday too, with Wal-Mart speeding up its final dividend payment of 2012 to avoid the likely higher tax rates next year.
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While the company is spending some of its cash on a special payout and speeding up its annual dividend payment, it still expects to hike quarterly payouts by a nickel per share, or 20%, in 2013.
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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.
If you do wish to account for this, enter the value of the dividend payment with a negative sign on the date a stock goes ex-dividend, and add the number back in when the dividend is received.
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The third company to declare a payout Monday took a page out of that book, but also followed in the footsteps of Wal-Mart, which accelerated a dividend payment scheduled for early 2013 to get in just under the wire.
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Technically, column C should also account for the lag between stocks going ex-dividend and the dividend payment, but this should not significantly effect the calculations unless the dividend in question is a significant part of the change in your portfolio value on any given day.
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The time lag between ex-dividend and payment received and reinvested is reduced to a minimum.
The consequences are an extraordinarily large number of special dividend declarations, the early payment of typical first-quarter dividends, and the future adverse impact on dividend growth rates for certain companies.
They will be entitled to receive payment of this dividend on Jan. 14, the company said.
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When companies declare a dividend, they choose the amount per share, the date the stock will go ex-dividend, and the date payment will be made to shareholders of record.
The dividend for the 2013 and 2014 financial years is to be adjusted to these plans, with a payment of 50 euro cents per dividend-bearing share planned for both years.
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Stock prices readjust on the ex-dividend date to reflect the pending payment, and there is no guarantee the shares won't slip below the trader's breakeven point, resulting in losses.
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Goldman Sachs expects BP to suspend its dividend for two quarters and resume the payment at a reduced rate by year's end.
They just announced the payment of their 160th consecutive dividend this week and NUE has increased its dividend every year since 1973.
The acceleration of payment dates also impacts future dividend growth rates.
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