Dividend Announcement Thread!

[Dividend Watcher]

(10-27-2015, 04:00 PM)DividendGarden Wrote: AFLAC's dividend is boosted 5.1% to $0.41 per share quarterly.

http://seekingalpha.com/news/2862576-afl...s-dividend

Right about where I thought they'd land. I can live with that. Good thing it's a long haul. Payout ratio still under 30%.

[DividendGarden]

(10-27-2015, 10:06 PM)Dividend Watcher Wrote:

(10-27-2015, 04:00 PM)DividendGarden Wrote: AFLAC's dividend is boosted 5.1% to $0.41 per share quarterly.

http://seekingalpha.com/news/2862576-afl...s-dividend

Right about where I thought they'd land. I can live with that. Good thing it's a long haul. Payout ratio still under 30%.

Agreed. If they keep raising two pennies at a time, the DGR will keep declining, so hopefully they will increase it three pennies, soon.

[Roadmap2Retire]

Its not an official increase announcement yet, but Amgen (AMGN) has indicated that dividends are forecast to rise to 27% in the forward guidance
Official announcement will probably come in January.

http://investors.amgen.com/phoenix.zhtml...ID=2103603

[DividendGarden]

Not sure if anyone owns Marathon Oil (MRO), but bad news...

Marathon Oil (NYSE:MRO) declares $0.05/share quarterly dividend, -76.2% decrease from prior dividend of $0.21.

http://seekingalpha.com/news/2870616-mar...5-dividend

[EricL]

Starbucks Corporation declared a cash dividend of $0.20 per share, an increase of 25%, payable on November 27, 2015 to shareholders of record as of November 12, 2015.

Another really nice increase for Starbucks. Congrats fellow shareholders!

[Roadmap2Retire]

(10-29-2015, 03:09 PM)EricL Wrote: Starbucks Corporation declared a cash dividend of $0.20 per share, an increase of 25%, payable on November 27, 2015 to shareholders of record as of November 12, 2015.

Another really nice increase for Starbucks. Congrats fellow shareholders!

Woohoo!

[DividendGarden]

Honeywell (NYSE:HON) declares $0.5950/share quarterly dividend, 15% increase from prior dividend of $0.5175.

http://seekingalpha.com/news/2878536-hon...0-dividend

[EricL]

AbbVie also announced today that its board declared an increase in the company's quarterly cash dividend from $0.51 per share to $0.57 per share beginning with the dividend payable on February 16, 2016 to shareholders of record as of January 15, 2016. This reflects an increase of approximately 12 percent, continuing AbbVie's strong commitment to returning cash to shareholders through a growing dividend. Since becoming an independent company in 2013, AbbVie has increased its dividend by more than 42 percent.

[ChadR]

EMR announced a dividend raise of 1.1% to $0.475 from $0.47.

[Roadmap2Retire]

Sun Life Financial (SLF) declares C$0.39/share quarterly dividend, 2.6% increase from prior dividend of $0.38.
Forward yield 3.5%
Payable Dec. 31; for shareholders of record Nov. 25; ex-div Nov. 23.

[Roadmap2Retire]

Inter Pipeline Ltd (IPL.TO) raising dividends 6.12%
Forward yield: 6.25%
Payable Dec 15; ex-date Nov 23.

[Dividendsrule]

Surprised no one beat me to it...

The Kraft Heinz company (KHC) raised the dividend 4.5% to $2.30
Forward yield: 3.11% (based on the AH share price)