Dividend Announcement Thread!

[EricL]

Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) declares $0.32/share quarterly dividend, 18.5% increase from prior dividend of $0.27.
Forward yield 2.0%
Payable July 26; for shareholders of record July 12; ex-div July 11.

[ken-do-nim]

(06-13-2022, 03:32 PM)EricL Wrote: Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) declares $0.32/share quarterly dividend, 18.5% increase from prior dividend of $0.27.
Forward yield 2.0%
Payable July 26; for shareholders of record July 12; ex-div July 11.

Given that the share price has fallen from over $100 to $64 in a shockingly short amount of time, it's hard to be too excited ... but that's pretty welcome news anyway.

[EricL]

The FedEx Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $1.15 per share on its common stock. This represents a $0.40 per share, or 53 percent, increase from the previous dividend of $0.75. The dividend is payable on July 11, 2022, to stockholders of record as of the close of business on June 27, 2022.

Forward yield 2.3%.

[cemanuel]

For KLAC:

"The company also boosted quarterly dividend by 24% to $1.30 per share from $1.05 per share."

The announcement didn't include ex-div and payout dates though as June 1 was the latest payday I'd expect around 9/1.

[Dividend Watcher]

SAN DIEGO, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Realty Income Corporation (Realty Income, NYSE: O), The Monthly Dividend Company, today announced its Board of Directors has declared an increase in the company's common stock monthly cash dividend to $0.2475 per share from $0.247 per share. The dividend is payable on July 15, 2022, to stockholders of record as of July 1, 2022. This is the 116th dividend increase since Realty Income's listing on the NYSE in 1994. The ex-dividend date for July's dividend is June 30, 2022. The new monthly dividend represents an annualized dividend amount of $2.97 per share as compared to the current annualized dividend amount of $2.964 per share.

[Last increase was 1.5% payable in March 2022.]

[Dividend Watcher]

The General Mills board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.54 per share, payable August 1, 2022, to shareholders of record July 8, 2022. This represents a 6 percent increase from the previous quarterly rate of $0.51 per share. General Mills and its predecessor company have paid dividends without interruption for 123 years.

[EricL]

Bank OZK (NASDAQ:OZK) declares $0.32/share quarterly dividend, 3.2% increase from prior dividend of $0.31.
Forward yield 3.38%
Payable July 22; for shareholders of record July 15; ex-div July 14.

[cemanuel]

Cummins (NYSE:CMI) declares $1.57/share quarterly dividend, 8.3% increase from prior dividend of $1.45.
Forward yield 3.1%
Payable Sept. 1; for shareholders of record Aug. 9; ex-div Aug. 8.

[EricL]

Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) declares $0.775/share quarterly dividend, 10.7% increase from prior dividend of $0.700.
Forward yield 4.13%
Payable Aug. 15; for shareholders of record July 29; ex-div July 28.

[Dividend Watcher]

ORRVILLE, Ohio, July 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The J.M. Smucker Co. (NYSE: SJM) today announced its Board of Directors approved an increase in the quarterly dividend from $0.99 to $1.02 per common share, an increase of three percent. The dividend will be paid on Thursday, September 1, 2022, to shareholders of record at the close of business on Friday, August 12, 2022. The Company remains committed to returning value to shareholders, as this represents the 21st consecutive year of dividend growth.

[Dividend Watcher]

Walgreens Boots Alliance Increases Quarterly Dividend
July 13, 2022

DEERFIELD, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA) today announced that its board of directors has declared a quarterly dividend of 48 cents per share, an increase of 0.5 percent. The increased dividend is payable Sept. 9, 2022, to stockholders of record as of Aug. 19, 2022, and raises the annual rate from $1.91 per share to $1.92 per share.

[EricL]

Cintas (NASDAQ:CTAS) declares $1.15/share quarterly dividend, 21.1% increase from prior dividend of $0.95.
Forward yield 1.16%
Payable Sept. 15; for shareholders of record Aug. 15; ex-div Aug. 12.
Cintas (CTAS) also announced that the board of directors approved an additional share buyback program under which the Company may buy up to $1B of Cintas common stock at market prices. This program is in addition to a current program with $0.5B of Cintas common stock remaining. Thus, in total, the Company may buy up to $1.5B of Cintas common stock at market prices.