The Board of Directors of Emerson (ticker: EMR) approved an increase in the dividend on the company’s common stock to $0.475 per quarter from $0.47, a 1.1% increase. While the increase was modest, this is the 57th consecutive year the company has raised its dividend. Few companies have such a lengthy track record of consecutive …
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In late October, both Aflac (ticker: AFL) and VF Corporation (ticker: VFC) announced increases in their quarterly dividends. Aflac declared an increase in the dividend on the company’s common stock to $0.41 per quarter from $0.39, a 5.1% increase. This is the 33rd consecutive year the company has raised its dividend. VF Corp declared an …
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October 19, 2015 Last week, the Board of Directors at Texas Instruments (ticker: TXN) declared an increase in the dividend on the company’s common stock to $0.38 per quarter from $0.34, an 11.7% increase. This is the 12th consecutive year the company has raised its dividend. Texas Instruments is one of the stock holdings in …
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Last week, Accenture (ticker: ACN) declared a semi-annual dividend on the company’s common stock of $1.10 per share for the first half of FY16 (August 31st Fiscal Year End), a 7.8% increase over the dividend paid for the same period a year ago. This is the 6th consecutive year the company has raised its dividend. …
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This week, the board of directors of Microsoft (ticker: MSFT) declared a quarterly dividend on the company’s common stock of $0.36 per share for the first quarter of FY16, a 16.1% increase over the dividend paid for the same quarter a year ago. This is the sixth consecutive year the company has raised its dividend. …
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