DAX-stock and German enterprise software maker SAP (SAP.XETRA) announced that it will rais its dividend to €1.58 per share for the fiscal year 2019, which is an increase of 5.3% from last year’s dividend of €1.50. The 2019 fiscal year dividend will be due for payment on May 26, 2020. This will be the 10th…
Dividend Aristocrat Leggett & Platt (LEG) announced a dividend of $.40 per share for the first quarter, an increase of $.02 per share or 5.3% versus the previous quarterly dividend of $.38. Leggett & Platt has increased its annual dividend for 49 consecutive years now and is close to the Dividend King status. At an…
Dividend Aristocrat Walmart (WMT) reported on Tuesday weaker-than-expected fiscal fourth-quarter earnings due to a shorter-than-usual holiday shopping season. The company said that fiscal 2021 earnings would miss analysts’ estimates. Walmart’s earnings for the three months ended January were $4.14 billion, or $1.45 a share vs. earnings of $3.69 billion, or $1.27 a share, compared to…
Warren Buffett bought shares of Kroger (KR) and Biogen (BIIB) in Q4-2019, and reduced his Apple (AAPL) and Wells Fargo (WFC) stakes, according to Berkshire Hathaway’s (BRKB) latest quarterly SEC 13F filings. Buffett bought nearly 19 million shares of Kroger, worth around $549 million, and almost 649,000 shares of Biogen, representing a holding of $192…
Dividend Aristocrat PepsiCo (PEP) reported its Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2019 Earnings, here is a breakdown of the most relevant items: PepsiCo EPS in-line, higher revenues PepsiCo reported revenues up 5.7% to $20.64 billion from $19.52 billion, and Pepsi said its organic revenue growth was 4.3%. Pepsico’s core EPS of $1.45 a share was almost…
For global dividend growth investors, the Canadian dividend aristocrats list can be a source of investment ideas. Like the US Dividend Aristocrats, the “Canadian” version is also created and maintained by S&P. The major difference is the number of consecutive years of dividend increases. To become a member of the Canadian dividend aristocrats list, 5…
Dividend Aristocrat AbbVie (ABBV) reported fourth-quarter earnings on Friday that were above consensus and the company raised its guidance for 2020. The company beats sales and earings expectations with 5.3% operational revenue growth and 16.3% growth in adjusted earnings-per-share. AbbVie AbbVie is also raising its 2020 EPS guidance of $7.66 to $7.76, representing growth of…
U.S. equities didn’t continue their way up in January 2020, after strong gains in December and November for the S&P 500. The year started strong, but gains were erased towards the end of the month as a result of coronavirus fears. The S&P 500 was almost flat (-0.04%) in January. The Dow Jones (DJIA) was…
S&P Europe 350® Dividend Aristocrats® measure the performance of S&P Europe 350 constituents that have followed a policy of consistently increasing dividends every year for at least 10 consecutive years. The index benchmark is the S&P Europe 350 index Like the (US) Dividend Aristocrats “big brother”, the European Dividend Aristocrats also tend to outperform its…
European dividend aristocrat L’Oréal (OR.PA) and the world’s biggest make-up company revenues reached 29.87 billion euros as reported on 31 December 2019, up 10.9%. On a like-for-like basis, sales growth reached 8.0%. Net profit reached 4.4 billion euros, compared to 4 billion euros in 2018. On the news, L’Oréal is trading at $277 up almost…