The week ending April 12 was a light week in terms of dividend raises, but we did see some significant increases.
Firms Raising Their Dividends This Week:
Bank of New York Mellon (BK): now $0.15 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.13.
First Merchants Corp (FRME): now $0.05 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.03.
IDEX Corporation (IEX): now $0.23 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.20.
Lakeland Financial (LKFN): now $0.19 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.17
Qualcomm (QCOM): now $0.35 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.25.
Select Income REIT (SIR): now $0.44 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.42.
Stage Stores (SSI) now $0.125 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.10.
Weyerhaeuser Company (WY): now $0.20 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.17.