One year after last year's dividend increase, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is raising its dividend again. The company's board of directors authorized a quarterly dividend of $0.51, representing an 11% increase over its previous quarterly dividend. In...
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With even 30-year Treasury bonds only yielding around 2.3%, investors looking for income from their portfolios have to look farther out on the risk curve than government bonds to get decent yields. Those low yields are making stocks -- which often...
Realty Income Corporation O recently announced its 103rd common stock monthly dividend hike since the company’s NYSE listing in 1994. The company will now pay 22.70 cents per share compared with the 22.65 cents paid earlier.The increased...
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ProAssurance Corporation PRA is well-poised for development on the back of its inorganic growth strategy and rising premiums.The company boasts an impressive dividend yield of 3%, much higher than its industry average of 0.4%.Its core business has...
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High-quality dividend stocks are like a fine wine: Over time, they just get better and better.The problem is, finding high-quality dividend stocks isn't easy. That's because yield and risk tend to be correlated. In other words, the higher the yield...
You're not likely to win the Miss Congeniality sash in a year in which you whack your dividend by more than half and serve up negative year-over-year revenue growth across all five of your business units. CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) isn't at its best...
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CenturyLink's (NYSE: CTL) dividend yield, one of the highest in the telecom industry, is attractive to dividend-oriented investors. And its safe payout, at a fraction of the company's healthy free cash flow, makes it even more compelling. But as...
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Real estate investment trust (REIT) Realty Income (NYSE: O) is a dividend investor favorite. A monthly payment coupled with an incredible 26 years of annual dividend increases (putting the landlord into the rarefied Dividend Aristocrat space) are...
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