The Montreal-based regional bank Laurentian Bank of Canada (LB) slashed its quarterly dividend, the first payout cut by a large Canadian lender in almost three decades. The dividend is reduced from 67 cents to 40 cents, a 40% reduction. Hence, Laurentian Bank of Canada will be deleted from the S&P/TSX Canadian Dividend Aristocrats Index. This…
Dividend aristocrat Target Corporation (TGT) increases its quarterly dividend from $0.66 to $0.68 which is a 3.0% increase. The dividend is payable September 10th, 2020, to shareholders of record at the close of business on August 19th, 2020. The 3rd quarter dividend will be the company’s 212th consecutive dividend paid since October 1967 when the…
Dividend Aristocrat Realty Income Corporation (O) recently announced its 107th common stock monthly dividend increase, since 1994. The company will now pay $0.2350 per share compared with the previous monthly dividend of $0.2330. The increased dividend will be paid on July 15, to shareholders on record as of July 1, 2020. The new annual dividend…
S&P Dow Jones Indices announces the following index change to the S&P/TSX Canadian Dividend Aristocrats Index as a result of the monthly dividend review. The changes will be effective prior to the open of trading on Monday, June 1, 2020. The following Canadian dividend stocks will be removed from this index: Alaris Royalty Corp (AD)…
We continue our updates for the detailed dividend stock pages, as of today, additional estimated future total return data is available for the dividend kings and dividend aristocrats in our database. The individual pages now include the following estimated future total return overview. Furthermore, the estimated EPS growth for the next 5 years is also…
The Dividend Aristocrats are a select group of currently 66 S&P 500 stocks with 25+ years of consecutive dividend increases. These 66 are large, US companies that have historically provided (slightly) better performance and (slightly) lower volatility than the S&P 500 as a whole. They are the ‘upper class’ dividend growth stocks and a great…
As a dividend growth investor, you could narrow the universe of stocks you willing to consider for your investment to dividend stocks by excluding the overvalued ones. We will zoom-in on and discuss 10 overvalued Dividend Aristocrats, their valuation, dividend yield, and performance. Determining overvalued dividend stocks For selecting the top-10, we use the theory…
Safran’s Board of Directors has decided not to propose to the Annual General Meeting of shareholders the payment of a dividend in 2020 for the 2019 financial year. According to the management, this decision preserves the Group’s resources in order to protect employees, maintain continuity of its operations, notably for its suppliers, support its customers,…
Dividends worldwide could fall up to 35% to $933 billion in 2020 due to the corona-virus, according to the latest Janus Henderson global dividend index report. The fund manager forecast is based on the analysis of companies that together account for more than 75% of global payouts. The best-case scenario is that worldwide dividends are…
European Dividend Aristocrats and French cosmetic giant L’Oreal’s (OR.PA) board of directors has decided to renounce the planned increase in the dividend of 10.4%, and consequently to propose to the Annual General Meeting a dividend of €3.85. The company’s annual general meeting is set for June 30 and will take place behind closed doors. Since…