Below we provide a list of firms that raised/lowered their dividends during the week ending September 19. The dividend reports of covered firms on this list will be updated shortly with the new information. To access our dividend reports use the ‘Symbol’ search box in our website header.

Firms Raising Their Dividends This Week

Apollo Residential Mortgage (AMTG): now $0.44 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.42.

Artesian Resources (ARTNA): now $0.2151 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.2119.

Atlantic Tele-Network (ATNI): now $0.29 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.27.

Blackstone Mortgage (BXMT): now $0.50 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.48.

Covanta (CVA): now $0.25 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.18.

Covidien (COV): now $0.36 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.32.

Elmer Bancorp (ELMA): now $0.32 per share semi-annual dividend, was $0.31.

Idacorp (IDA): now $0.47 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.43.

McDonald's (MCD): now $0.85 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.81.

PennyMac (PMT): now $0.61 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.59.

Sanderson Farms (SAFM): now $0.22 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.20.

Texas Instruments (TXN): now $0.34 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.30.

Washington Trust (WASH): now $0.32 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.29.

WSFS Financial (WSFS): now $0.15 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.12.

Firms Lowering Their Dividends This Week

Atlantic Power (AT): now C$0.12 per share annual dividend, was C$0.40.

>>Last week’s dividend increases.