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Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week Ending November 2

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Below we provide a list of firms that raised their dividends during the week ending November 2. 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 Aircastle (AYR): now $0.30 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.28. AllianceBernstein (AB): now $0.69 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.62. American Assets Trust (AAT): now $0.28 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.27. Apollo Global Management (APO): now $0.46 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.43. Arbor Realty Trust (ABR): now $0.27 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.25. Black Stone Minerals (BSM): now $0.37 per share quarterly dividend, … Read more

In The Name of Our Independence and Integrity…For Goodness Sake

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Last week, an article was published that associated us with hedge funds, questioned our integrity as honest hard-working equity analysts with years of experience, dismissed our fantastic performance track record and Brian Nelson’s Chartered Financial Analyst designation, tarnished our independence as an equity research provider, and offered another author in free form the opportunity to misinterpret our completely independent and unbiased thesis and address it in ways of their preference, belittling our entire team at Valuentum and doing irreparable harm to our brand and image, in our vew. We were willing to let it go, but then another article ran in the print edition Saturday. First, let’s address the online piece, and the print piece subsequent to this. Valuentum’s thoughts … Read more

Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week Ending May 5

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Below we provide a list of firms that raised/lowered their dividends during the week ending May 5. 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 American Campus Communities (ACC): now $0.44 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.42. Ameriprise Financial (AMP): now $0.83 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.75. Apple (AAPL): now $0.63 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.57. Arbor Realty Trust (ABR): now $0.18 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.17. Artesian Resources (ARTNA): now $0.2317 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.2283. Barnes Group (B): now $0.14 per share quarterly dividend, was … Read more

Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week Ending May 6

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Below we provide a list of firms that raised/lowered their dividends during the week ending May 6. 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 Agree Realty Corporation (ADC): now $0.48 per share quarterly dividend, was$0.465. American Campus Communities (ACC): now $0.42 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.40. AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group NV (AMVMF): now €0.11 per share semi-annual dividend, was €0.10. Ardmore Shipping (ASC): now $0.16 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.13. Artesian Resources Corporation (ARTNA): now $0.2249 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.2216. Bank Mutual Corporation (BKMU): now $0.055 … Read more

Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week Ending May 11

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Below we provide a list of firms that raised their dividends during the week ending May 11. 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 Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN): now $0.1282 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.1165. Baker Hughes (BHGE): now $0.18 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.12. Baxter (BAX): now $0.19 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.16. BG Staffing (BGSF): now $0.30 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.25. Brookline Bancorp (BRKL): now $0.10 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.09. Business First Bancshares (BFST): now $0.08 per share quarterly dividend, … Read more

Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week Ending February 7

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Below we provide a list of firms that raised their dividends during the week ending February 7. 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 3M (MMM): now $1.47 per share quarterly dividend, was $1.44. Activision Blizzard (ATVI): now $0.41 per share annual dividend, was $0.37. Aflac (AFL): now $0.28 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.27. Allegion (ALLE): now $0.32 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.27. Amdocs (DOX): now $0.3275 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.2850. Angel Oak Financial Strategies Income Term (FINS): now $0.1112 per share monthly dividend, was $0.1097. … Read more

January 5-9: The Week That Was – Drowning in Crude

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By Brian Nelson, CFA The first full week of 2015 was a wild one! Monday and Tuesday brought some hefty losses to the indices, but the middle of the week helped recover most of the ground, only to give some of it back Friday. When all was said and done, however, the S&P 500 still closed comfortably above 2040, a huge leap from just 5-6 years ago. We’re still enjoying the good times, with economic data still coming in relatively sanguine. Like a frog in water, the markets are just waiting for the next shoe to drop, and the Federal Reserve is doing all that it can to assure investors that the Yellen-put is there to prop up the markets should … Read more

Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week Ending May 8

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Below we provide a list of firms that raised their dividends during the week ending May 8. 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 Agree Realty (ADC): now $0.60 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.58. Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN): now $0.1551 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.1410. Ameriprise Financial (AMP): now $1.04 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.97. B2Gold (BTG): now $0.02 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.01. Baxter (BAX): now $0.245 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.220. Brookfield Infrastructure (BIPC): now $0.485 per share quarterly dividend. Century Next … Read more

Nelson’s Quick Thoughts on Midstream Energy MLPs

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Image Source: Roy Luck Nelson’s Take We continue to be quite cautious on the midstream MLP business model (AMLP), including Energy Transfer Partners’ (ETP), given its extreme capital-market dependency (i.e. the continuous need for new equity and debt capital), and we maintain our view that the group is 1) inextricably tied to energy resource pricing, if not directly (5%-10%) than indirectly through the financial health of their upstream customer bases and 2) the credit markets via ongoing project-financing requirements and outsize debt loads. Many in the group continue to be capital-intensive, highly-leveraged entities that have little cash cushions on the books to handle exogenous shocks. Most, if not all, generate traditional free cash flow (CFO less all capex) shortfalls, after … Read more

MLPs Breaking Out But More Questions

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As we stated when we added exposure to the energy sector October 6 (see here), we’d be fools not to acknowledge the technical breakout in units of master limited partnerships the past few weeks. The group still has a long way to go to get back to “even,” but for the sake of retirees who are “DRIPping” into these equities, we sincerely hope some losses can be recuperated. Our experience tells us, however, that the road won’t be an easy one, but we are hoping chartists will be piling into units in the coming days. Fundamental investors may not be aware of this “technical” catalyst to come, but the breakout could be a big one. MLP investors have lost so … Read more