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  • Wells Fargo & Company Declares Cash Dividends on Preferred Stock


    Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) today announced dividends on five series of preferred stock.... more

    Published Mon, 20 May 2013 21:28:00 UT on BusinessWire

    Stock symbol(s): WFC



  • Alpine Total Dynamic Dividend Fund (NYSE: AOD), Alpine Global Dynamic Dividend Fund (NYSE: AGD), Alpine Global Premier Properties Fund (NYSE: AWP) Declare Regular Monthly Distributions for June 2013

    The Board of Trustees of Alpine Total Dynamic Dividend Fund (NYSE: AOD), Alpine Global Dynamic Dividend Fund (NYSE: AGD) and Alpine Global Premier Properties Fund (NYSE: AWP) announced their same regular monthly distribution for the month of June 2013 as each had paid in the previous month.... more

    Published Mon, 20 May 2013 20:50:00 UT on BusinessWire

    Stock symbol(s): AGD



  • Hormel Foods Corporation Declares Quarterly Dividend

    Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE: HRL), a multinational marketer of consumer-branded food and meat products, announced today that its quarterly dividend on the common stock, authorized by the Board of Directors at seventeen cents (17¢) a share on May 20, 2013, will be paid August 15, 2013, to stockholders of record at the close of business on July 22, 2013.... more

    Published Mon, 20 May 2013 20:30:00 UT on BusinessWire

    Stock symbol(s): HRL



  • 3 Waste Management Dividend Stocks: 1 To Buy, 1 To Hold And 1 To Avoid

    The Landscape Regulated utilities posted a 2.0% and 7.5% nominal and total return in 2012. Small- and mid-cap regulated issuers were up 1.6% while large issuers were up 1.1% on a nominal basis, according to Barclays. Strong investor interest in dividend-paying stocks continued to stoke positive income fund flows. This support was offset by investor concerns about group price-to-earnings valuation levels and uncertainty about dividend tax policy after the November elections. As for valuation, the regulated group ended the year with very compressed price-to-earnings multiples. The relative 2014 P/E ratio spread between large-capitalization regulated companies and small- to mid-capitalization regulated companies stood at just 0.8%. This is very tight versus the historically normal range of... more

    Published Mon, 20 May 2013 16:28:30 -0400 on SeekingAlpha

    Stock symbol(s): CVA,EEI,WM



  • General Cable Announces Initiation of Quarterly Dividend and Extends $125 Million Share Repurchase Authorization Through the End of 2013

    General Cable Corporation (NYSE: BGC) today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized the payment of a regular quarterly dividend. The Board declared an initial quarterly dividend of $0.18 per share, payable on June 28, 2013 to all common shareholders of record as of June 10, 2013. The quarterly dividend is the first for General Cable since 2002. In addition, the Board extended the Company’s existing $125 million, one-year share repurchase program originally adopted in October 2012. The 2012 repurchase program authorization will now continue through the end of 2013. This program has not been utilized by the Company principally due to restrictions implemented while the Company restated its financial statements at the end of 2012 and into the early part of 2013.... more

    Published Mon, 20 May 2013 20:15:00 UT on BusinessWire

    Stock symbol(s): BGC



  • Can Windstream Maintain Its Ample Dividend Yield?

    Although CenturyLink (CTL) is still the primus inter pares of the rural telecom sector even after its recent dividend reduction we have also been covering its two largest competitors Frontier Communications Corporation (FTR) and Windstream Corporation (WIN). Windstream's shares generated a negative 22% total return in 2012 but bounced back by 7.55% because investors are relieved that Windstream hasn't cut its dividend, or at least not yet. We began warming up to Windstream's 11.5% yield because Windstream's shares have been beaten so badly throughout 2012 and because we were expecting it to ease back on its capital investment program in 2013. We were pleased to see that Windstream's management confirmed our expectations on its CapEx and that it would reduce its capital... more

    Published Mon, 20 May 2013 15:48:29 -0400 on SeekingAlpha

    Stock symbol(s): WIN,CTL,DISH,DTV,FTR,S,T



  • Chemed Corporation Holds Annual Meeting of Shareholders; Board Declares Quarterly Dividend

    Shareholders of Chemed Corporation (NYSE: CHE) today elected a slate of 10 directors at the Company’s 2013 annual shareholders’ meeting. Each of the directors continues from the prior term. Following the shareholders’ meeting, Chemed’s Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of 18 cents per share on the Company’s capital stock, payable on June 19, 2013, to shareholders of record as of May 30, 2013. This represents the 168th consecutive quarterly dividend paid to shareholders in Chemed’s 42 years as a public company.... more

    Published Mon, 20 May 2013 17:58:00 UT on BusinessWire

    Stock symbol(s): CHE



  • Utility Investors Should Focus On ROIC, Not Dividend Yield - Part II S&P Utility Index

    Part I of this 3-part series reviewed an article published in the utility industry trade publication Public Utilities Fortnightly in 2007 that is still worth reading. The article is titled, "How to Achieve High Performance, Lessons from the Top 40 Utilities." Many investors focus on the wrong fundamentals by concentrating on dividend yield. According to the information compiled by Public Utilities Fortnightly, there is a substantially higher correlation factor between three-year total stock returns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) and Return on Equity (ROE) than a utility's current dividend yield. ROIC is an important concept for capital-intensive businesses. It measure management's effectiveness in generating shareholder returns based on all the... more

    Published Mon, 20 May 2013 13:30:38 -0400 on SeekingAlpha

    Stock symbol(s): AEE,CMS,DTE,EIX,EQT,ETR,EXC,GAS,NRG,NU,OKE,PEG,PNW,POM,PPL,...



  • Shiver Me Timbers: Investing In Timber For Dividends

    With the homebuilding stocks on a tear over the past twelve months, what are some other industries that could be big benefactors from the surge in housing? One industry I find intriguing is in the specialty REIT space, specifically, the timer REITs. The big three timber REITs, Rayonier (RYN), Plum Creek Timber (PCL) and Weyerhaeuser Company (WY) all have there respective exposure to the core timber and housing market, but the inner-workings of each company makes them solid investments in their own right; they all also pay dividend yields in excess of 2.5%. Plum Creek Timber is one of the largest owners of private timberland in the U.S. and pays the highest dividend yield of the three at 3.3%. The company produces lumber and plywood at various wood products manufacturing facilities in the... more

    Published Mon, 20 May 2013 13:19:35 -0400 on SeekingAlpha

    Stock symbol(s): PCL,RYN,WY



  • Reasons To Keep Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF In Your Stock Portfolio

    With the Fed continuing to maintain key interest rates at zero to 0.25%, interest in exchange-traded funds among investors remains strong. These funds track the performance of a particular index and are traded like securities. Investors have been buying heavily into these high-yield ETFs to chase the higher interest income they provide. During the first quarter of the year alone, investors put $53.1 billion of their money into ETFs, and these Funds have seen inflows of over $50 billion in four out of the five previous quarters. The Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF (NYSEA: VIG), which is currently trading at $69.40 per share is among the most popular ETFs among investors. If you don't yet have this ETF as part of your portfolio, you should definitely consider adding it now.... more

    Published Mon, 20 May 2013 12:05:00 -0400 on SeekingAlpha

    Stock symbol(s): VIG