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First Trust High Income Long/Short Fund Declares its Monthly Common Share Distribution of $0.105 Per Share for June

First Trust High Income Long/Short Fund (the "Fund") (NYSE: FSD) has declared the Fund’s regularly scheduled monthly common share distribution in the amount of $0.105 per share payable on June 17, 2019, to shareholders of record as of June 4, 2019. The ex-dividend date is expected to be June 3, 2019. The monthly distribution information for the Fund appears below.... more

Published May 20, 2019 04:54 PM EDT on BusinessWireStock symbol(s): FSD

First Trust Intermediate Duration Preferred & Income Fund Declares its Monthly Common Share Distribution of $0.1425 Per Share for June

First Trust Intermediate Duration Preferred & Income Fund (the "Fund") (NYSE: FPF) has declared the Fund’s regularly scheduled monthly common share distribution in the amount of $0.1425 per share payable on June 17, 2019, to shareholders of record as of June 4, 2019. The ex-dividend date is expected to be June 3, 2019. The monthly distribution information for the Fund appears below.... more

Published May 20, 2019 04:51 PM EDT on BusinessWireStock symbol(s): FPF

First Trust Mortgage Income Fund Declares its Monthly Common Share Distribution of $0.06 Per Share for June

First Trust Mortgage Income Fund (the "Fund") (NYSE: FMY) has declared the Fund’s regularly scheduled monthly common share distribution in the amount of $0.06 per share payable on June 17, 2019, to shareholders of record as of June 4, 2019. The ex-dividend date is expected to be June 3, 2019. The monthly distribution information for the Fund appears below.... more

Published May 20, 2019 04:51 PM EDT on BusinessWireStock symbol(s): FMY

First Trust Energy Infrastructure Fund Declares its Monthly Common Share Distribution of $0.11 Per Share for June

First Trust Energy Infrastructure Fund (the "Fund") (NYSE: FIF) has declared the Fund’s regularly scheduled monthly common share distribution in the amount of $0.11 per share payable on June 17, 2019, to shareholders of record as of June 4, 2019. The ex-dividend date is expected to be June 3, 2019. The monthly distribution information for the Fund appears below.... more

Published May 20, 2019 04:42 PM EDT on BusinessWireStock symbol(s): FIF

First Trust Dynamic Europe Equity Income Fund Declares its Monthly Common Share Distribution of $0.121 Per Share for June

First Trust Dynamic Europe Equity Income Fund (the "Fund") (NYSE: FDEU) has declared the Fund’s regularly scheduled monthly common share distribution in the amount of $0.121 per share payable on June 17, 2019, to shareholders of record as of June 4, 2019. The ex-dividend date is expected to be June 3, 2019. The monthly distribution information for the Fund appears below.... more

Published May 20, 2019 04:42 PM EDT on BusinessWireStock symbol(s): FDEU

Dillard’s, Inc. Announces $0.10 Cash Dividend

Dillard’s, Inc. (NYSE: DDS) (the “Company” or “Dillard’s”) announced that the Board of Directors declared a cash dividend of $0.10 per share on the Class A and Class B Common Stock of the Company payable August 5, 2019 to shareholders of record as of June 28, 2019.... more

Published May 20, 2019 04:41 PM EDT on BusinessWireStock symbol(s): DDS

First Trust/Aberdeen Global Opportunity Income Fund Declares its Monthly Common Share Distribution of $0.07 Per Share for June

First Trust/Aberdeen Global Opportunity Income Fund (the "Fund") (NYSE: FAM) has declared the Fund’s regularly scheduled monthly common share distribution in the amount of $0.07 per share payable on June 17, 2019, to shareholders of record as of June 4, 2019. The ex-dividend date is expected to be June 3, 2019. The monthly distribution information for the Fund appears below.... more

Published May 20, 2019 04:34 PM EDT on BusinessWireStock symbol(s): FAM

MVB Financial Corp. Declares Second Quarter 2019 Dividend

MVB Financial Corp. (Nasdaq: MVBF) (MVB) has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.04 per share payable on June 15, 2019, to shareholders of record at the close of business on June 1, 2019.... more

Published May 20, 2019 04:05 PM EDT on BusinessWireStock symbol(s): MVBF

Eagle Materials Declares Quarterly Dividend

The Board of Directors of Eagle Materials Inc. (NYSE: EXP) has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.10 per share, payable on July 19, 2019, to stockholders of record of its Common Stock at the close of business on June 21, 2019.... more

Published May 20, 2019 04:15 PM EDT on BusinessWireStock symbol(s): EXP

Leggett & Platt: A Dividend Aristocrat Set To Deliver Alpha

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When we consider that the primary issue for most investors is that they make things more complicated than they need to be, the strategy of investing in Dividend Champions is simple yet effective. For every General Electric, there are companies like Pepsico and Altria to make up for those types of investments that end up not working out, even though the writing was arguably on the wall and had one followed the dividend safety scores assigned by Simply Safe Dividends, they would have avoided both of the dividend cuts from GE.
One such company that has recently grabbed my attention is Leggett & Platt (LEG).
Between its high dividend... more

Published Mon, 20 May 2019 15:32:14 -0400 on SeekingAlpha