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.