European Dividend Aristocrat and Danish healthcare company Novo Nordisk paid an interim dividend of 3.25 DKK per share. The current dividend yield is around 2.50% with a payout ratio of 50.5%. Novo Nordisk has been able to increase its dividend payout since 2003. In 2016, Novo Nordisk switched from annual dividend payments to semi-annual. Payment…
The Dutch insurance and asset-management company AEGON NV reported on Thursday that it will cut its dividend by more than half as it reported a 67% fall in net profit for H1-2020. AEGON will pay a dividend of €0.06 for the half-year (interim dividend 2020), compared with 15 € cents for the period last year.…
European Dividend Aristocrat Legal & General paid a cash dividend of £0.049 per share with an ex-dividend date of August 13th and a payable date of September 24th. The current annual dividend is £0.1757 per share, representing a dividend yield of 8.2%. The current payout-ratio is 55.17% and the 5-year average dividend growth rate is…
European Dividend Aristocrat Ashtead Group (aht.lse) pays a cash dividend of £0.335 per share with an ex-dividend date of August 13th and a payable date of September 11th. Ashtead is a “fast dividend growth” stock, the average 5 years growth rate is above 25%, which is exceptional for UK dividend stocks.Year-to-date the stock is up…
European Dividend Aristocrat Diageo pays a cash dividend of £0.425 per share with an ex-dividend date of August 13th and a payable date of October 8th. The average 5 years growth rate is now close to 5%. The diagram below displays Diageo’s Dividend history. Diageo plc’s current dividend yield of 2.72% is 8% just above…
After a strong Q2 performance, our International Dividend Portfolio gained another 1.23% (in USD) in July and is now down -2.93% for the year, which is still an outperformance compared to the European or US Dividend Aristocrats. In euros, the performance has been impacted substantially due to the weakening of the dollar versus the euro.…
The Defensive Dividend Aristocrats rallied again and outperformed the S&P 500 index last month. US equities continued their rally in July, the S&P 500 gained 5.6% and the Dividend Aristocrats followed closely with 5.13%. The investors struggled a bit mix signals, weak macroeconomic data, concerns on the COVID-19 virus combined with Fed stimulus, and some…
Our retirement portfolio gained 5.35% in July 2020, close to the S&P 500’s performance of 5.9% and outperforming Invesco’s High Dividend Low Volatility ETF (SPHD), which was up 2.53%. Since its inception in January 2017, our portfolio has returned 13.9%, which is behind the S&P 500 (56.8%) but well ahead of our dividend ETF benchmark…
Dividend Aristocrat PPG Industries (PPG) raises its dividend by ~6% and this is the 48th consecutive year with respect to dividend increases. PPG, a manufacturer, and distributor of coatings, specialty materials, and glass products, declared a $0.54/share quarterly dividend, this is a 5.9% increase from the prior dividend of $0.51 per share. The current forward…
European Dividend Aristocrat and Supermarket giant Ahold Delhaize NV reported a 78% surge in second-quarter earnings related to the coronavirus. The 2020 interim dividend is €0.50, up 67% Underlying operating income was €1.01 billion, up 78% from 594 million euros in the same period a year ago, on comparable sales of €19.1 billion, up 15.9%.…