Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week Ending August 28

Below we provide a list of firms that raised/lowered their dividends during the week ending August 28. 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 Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS): now C$0.70 per share quarterly dividend, was C$0.68. Blackhawk Bancorp (BHWB): now $0.04 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.02.                Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM): now C$1.12 per share quarterly dividend, was C$1.09. CrossAmerica Partners (CAPL): now $0.5625 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.5475. Educational Development Corporation (EDUC): now $0.09 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.08. EMC Insurance (EMCI): now $0.17 … Read more

Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week Ending August 15

Below we provide a list of firms that raised/lowered their dividends during the week ending August 15. 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 Briggs & Stratton (BGG): now $0.125 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.12. CAE (CAE): now C$0.07 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.06. Connecticut Water Service (CTWS): now $0.2575 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.2475. General Growth Properties (GGP): now $0.16 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.15. Green Plains Renewable Energy (GPRE): now $0.08 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.04. Home Loan Servicing Solutions (HLSS): now $0.18 … Read more

Valuentum Economic Castleâ„¢ Rating Update

Read: Keeping the Horse Before the Cart: Valuentum’s Economic Castle™ Rating The Economic Castle Focuses on the Magnitude of Economic Value Creation The Valuentum Economic Castle™ rating is an enhancement of the competitive advantage framework (commonly known as economic moat analysis) that has become widespread and ubiquitous within the investing world. Whereas an economic moat framework evaluates a firm on the basis of the sustainability and durability of its competitive advantages, Valuentum’s Economic Castle™ rating evaluates a firm on the basis of the firm’s future economic profit spread (return on invested capital less its weighted average cost of capital). The companies with the strongest Valuentum Economic Castle™ ratings are poised to generate the most economic value for shareholders in the … Read more

Three Reasons Why Dividend Growth Investors Are Quite Savvy

A version of this article appeared on our website on October 1, 2013. There are many different approaches to investing, but we think dividend growth investors are quite savvy, especially when they combine a rigorous dividend growth process in the form of the Valuentum Dividend Cushion ratio with the valuation rigors behind the Valuentum Buying Index. Let’s examine the three reasons why we think dividend growth investors are a smart group in the age of ultra-low interest rates. #1. Fool Me Once, Shame on You…Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me Today’s dividend growth crowd has seen enough. First, they witnessed the dot-com bubble (1997-2000), a period in stock market history where firms’ stock prices soared in some cases as a result … Read more

Packaging Corporation of America Bets Big on Boise

Monday morning, Packaging Corporation of America (click ticker for report: ) announced that it will pay $12.55 per share in cash to acquire paper company Boise (BZ) for a total deal value of $1.995 billion. The deal increases PCA’s containerboard presence by 42% to 3.7 million tons, while also giving PCA a presence in the Pacific Northwest—an area previously underrepresented. Source: BZ 2012 10-K Though Boise has struggled with large amounts of excess capacity in its newsprint segment, we’ve seen the firm move capacity closer to production over the past two years, leading to stabilized profitability. Nevertheless, the small, Idaho-based player was unable to truly compete with national competitors. Further, Boise had a large net-debt position, leaving the company fairly … Read more

Dividend Increases for the Week Ending August 16 Included Weyerhaeuser and Cinemark

Below we provide a list of firms that upped their dividends for the week ending August 16. The dividend reports of covered firms on this list will be updated shortly with the new information. To access our dividend reports, please click here (or use our ‘Symbol’ search box in our website header). Firms Raising Their Dividends This Week Atrion Corp (ATRI): now $0.64 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.56. Avnet (AVT): first-ever quarterly dividend of $0.15 per share. Bolt Technology Corp (BOLT): now $0.09 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.07. Cinemark Holdings (CNK): now $0.25 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.21. Cincinnati Financial Corp (CINF): now $0.42 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.4075. Connecticut Water Service (CTWS): now $0.2475 per share quarterly … Read more

Firms Raising Their Dividends In The Week Ending April 12

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.

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Going forward, please use the ‘Symbol’ search box to download stock and dividend reports of companies you are interested in. The ‘Symbol’ search box can be found in our website header. Image shown from above. Use the active search box in the website header above. Learn more about your membership >>  Note: We have now discontinued this list. Please use the ‘Symbol’ search box in the website header for stock and dividend reports. Please read about our Valuentum Dividend Cushion score (ratio) here. Just having access to this valuable metric alone could save your income portfolio thousands of dollars! The past meets the future as we showcase the Valuentum Dividend Cushion scores of Dividend Aristocrats in this article (click here). The dividend reports below … Read more

VIDEO/TRANSCRIPT: 2021 Valuentum Exclusive Call: Inflation Is Good

Valuentum’s President Brian Michael Nelson, CFA, explains why investors should not fear inflation, why government agencies such as the Fed and Treasury are prioritizing something other than price discovery, why the 10-year Treasury rate is a must-watch metric, and why Valuentum prefers the moaty constituents in large cap growth due to their net cash rich balance sheets, tremendous free cash flow generating potential, and secular growth tailwinds. Transcript: << Valuentum’s Best Ideas On behalf of the Valuentum team, I’d like to present to you our prepared remarks for the Valuentum Exclusive conference call for 2021. It is both an honor and a privilege to share our team’s work with you, and I personally am very grateful for your continued interest … Read more

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