Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week of July 11

Below we provide a list of firms that raised their dividends during the week ending July 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                          Coca-Cola FEMSA (KOF): now $0.9877 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.8830. Enterprise Products Partners (EPD): now $0.545 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.535. Industrial Logistics Properties (ILPT): now $0.05 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.01. Levi Strauss (LEVI): now $0.14 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.13. Marsh & McLennan (MMC): now $0.90 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.81. PB Financial (PBNC): now $0.59 per … Read more

14%+ Yielding AGNC Investment May Be Worth a Trade

Image: Mortgage REITs have performed horribly since we warned about them back in May 2013. By Brian Nelson, CFA Mortgage REITs (REM) are popular vehicles because of their deceptively enticing dividend yields, but we’ve never been bullish on the group. We’re reiterating our take today that these instruments are not for the individual investor or even prudent financial advisor and are more complicated vehicles than many investors believe. In May 2013, we first starting warning about the group, and the performance, as shown in the image above, hasn’t been pretty. On a price-only basis, the iShares Mortgage Real Estate ETF is trailing the simpleton S&P 500 index by 250+ percentage points since we first laid out our thesis on the … Read more

Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week of January 13

Below we provide a list of firms that raised their dividends during the week ending January 13. 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                Algoma Central Corporation (TSX.ALC:CA) now CAD 0.18 per share quarterly dividend, was CAD 0.17. Alpine Banks of Colorado (ALPIB): now $0.20 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.18. Apogee (APOG): now $0.24 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.22. ATCO Ltd. (ACO.X:CA): now CAD 0.4756 per share quarterly dividend, was CAD 0.4617. Codorus Valley (CVLY): now $0.16 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.15. Gladstone Land (LAND): now … Read more

Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week January 14

Below we provide a list of firms that raised their dividends during the week ending January 14. 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 Ally Financial (ALLY): now $0.30 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.25. Alphamin Resources (AFMJF): now CAD 0.03 per share annual dividend. Alpine Banks of Colorado (ALPIB): now $0.18 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.16. Apogee (APOG): now $0.22 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.20. Atco (ACLLF): now CAD 0.4617 per share quarterly dividend, was CAD 0.4483. BlackRock (BLK): now $4.88 per share quarterly dividend, was $4.13. … Read more