Dividend and Distribution Hikes - 2012

[jeremy]

Boston Pizza Royalties Income Fund Announces 6.5% Increase to Monthly Cash Distributions to Unitholders

Boston Pizza Royalties Income Fund (the "Fund") announced today a cash distribution to unitholders of 9.8 cents per unit for February 2012. This is an increase of 0.6 cents per unit from the previous monthly rate of 9.2 cents per unit or $1.104 per unit on an annualized basis to 9.8 cents per unit or $1.176 per unit on an annualized basis

[ThinkDividends]

Savanna Energy Services (SVY) to start paying $0.03 per share monthly dividend ($0.36 annually), giving the stock a ~4.5% yield, starting in May.


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[kjmcrae]

Transcontinental's (TCL.A-T) first quarter: Closes Quad/Graphics Canada, Inc. acquisition and increases dividend by 7%

...now stands at $0.58 per share on an annual basis.

[ThinkDividends]

Dunkin' Declares First Dividend

Dunkin' Brands Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: DNKN), the parent company of Dunkin' Donuts (DD) and Baskin-Robbins (BR), today announced that its Board of Directors has approved the initiation of a cash dividend to shareholders. The quarterly dividend of $0.15 per share will be paid on March 28, 2012, to shareholders of record on the close of business on March 19, 2012.

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[ThinkDividends]

JPMorgan (JPM) hiked its quarterly dividend to $0.30 from $0.25

JPM also authorized a new $15 billion equity repurchase program, of which up to $12 billion is approved for 2012 and up to an additional $3 billion is approved through the end of the first quarter of 2013


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[ThinkDividends]

Other U.S. banks raising dividends (announced after JPM):

Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) by 83%

U.S. Bancorp (USB) by 56%

BB&T Corp. (BBT) by 25%


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[retireat50]

Longtime holding of mine institutes dividend. Extremely low P/E on this one with nice YOY growth for over a decade.

Stantec is pleased to announce that its board of directors has approved a dividend policy, and concurrently declared its first quarterly dividend of C$0.15 per share, payable on April 17, 2012, to shareholders of record on March 30, 2012. The declaration of a dividend reflects the confidence of Stantec’s board of directors and management in the Company’s ability to generate ongoing cash flow from operations, continue to grow revenue, and complete strategic acquisitions while providing enhanced shareholder returns.

[ThinkDividends]

Stantec is pleased to announce that its board of directors has approved a dividend policy, and concurrently declared its first quarterly dividend of C$0.15 per share, payable on April 17, 2012, to shareholders of record on March 30, 2012.

Already reported on 15 Feb 2012

[ThinkDividends]

Pacific Rubiales (PRE) increases dividend by 18%


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[FinEcon]

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA--(Marketwire - March 16, 2012) - The North West Company Inc. (the "Company" or "North West") (TSX:NWC) today reported its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter ended January 31, 2012 prepared under International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS"). It also announced that the Board of Directors have declared a dividend of $0.26 per share, an increase of 8.3%, to shareholders of record on March 30, 2012, payable on April 16, 2012.

http://www.stockhouse.com/News/Canadian ... ?n=8454674

[ThinkDividends]

Apple launches iDividend

Subject to declaration by the Board of Directors, the Company plans to initiate a quarterly dividend of $2.65 per share sometime in the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2012, which begins on July 1, 2012.

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[kcowan]

Apple launches iDividend

Based on my average cost, a juicy 14% return!

[Sensei]

Hi,

Good for Apple. They finally grew up.

[ThinkDividends]

Colgate-Palmolive Company (CL) increased its quarterly dividend by 7% to $0.62.


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[JaydoubleU]

Here's an interesting one.

NAL Energy (NAE) is getting taken out by Pengrowth (PGH) in a deal where NAL shareholders get 0.86 shares of PGH for each NAE share. If the deal proceeds as outlined, NAL shareholders will end up with a 20% dividend increase.

The proposed business combination is expected to be accretive upon closing to Pengrowth shareholders on a funds from operation and production per share basis, and also provides NAL shareholders with a 20.4% increase in monthly dividends per share, an increase in reserves per share and exposure to a company with a longer reserve life index.

Say you owned 1000 shares of NAE. At 60 cents a share per year, that's $600 in annual dividends. After the deal, you'll own 860 shares of PGH, which pays a dividend of 84 cents a year. 860 x 0.84 = 722.4!

Marvelous ! Until PGH cuts the dividend after it realizes it cannot sustain the greatly increased debt load

[Sensei]

Hi,

I don't have the official announcement, but deep in an Argus report I found that Royal Dutch Shell raised their quarterly dividend to .86 (annual = 3.44). I just received my dividend at the old rate, so this increase will be effective (their) 2012 Q1.

[pmj]

The expected incease from 0.42 to 0.43 on the ordinary (UK & NL) shares (and thus to 0.86 on the ADS) is here:
http://www.shell.com/home/content/inves ... ouncement/

[ThinkDividends]

SNC-Lavalin (SNC) increased the quarterly cash dividend by 5% to $0.22 per share

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[JaydoubleU]

American Express hikes dividend 11%

American Express Co. is increasing its quarterly dividend by 11 percent. The financial services company said Monday that it will raise its dividend to 20 cents a share from 18 cents. It is payable May 10 to shareholders of record as of April 5.

[ThinkDividends]

Walgreens (WAG) raised its quarterly dividend by 29% to $0.225 per share

Walgreens has paid a dividend in 318 straight quarters (more than 79 years) and has raised its dividend for 36 consecutive years. Over the last five years, Walgreens annual dividend rate has increased from 31 cents per share to 90 cents per share, resulting in a compound annual growth rate of 23.8 percent.

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[jeremy]

Walgreens (WAG) raised its quarterly dividend by 29% to $0.225 per share

Walgreens has paid a dividend in 318 straight quarters (more than 79 years) and has raised its dividend for 36 consecutive years. Over the last five years, Walgreens annual dividend rate has increased from 31 cents per share to 90 cents per share, resulting in a compound annual growth rate of 23.8 percent.

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Their press release makes it sound like they just raised the dividend, but the dividend has been at $0.225 since last year: http://investor.walgreens.com/divhistory.cfm
(I almost posted to this thread with their last dividend declaration...)

[kjmcrae]

Dollarama (TSX:DOL) reports record results to close fiscal 2012 and increases dividend by 22%

...increasing the quarterly dividend from $0.09 to $0.11 per common share

[RomaneeConti]

Carfinco Increases Cash Dividend by 16.7%

The new monthly dividend will grow from 3 cents to 3.5 cents beginning April 30.
The last dividend hike was in September 2011 which went from 2.5 cents to 3 cents.

http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/953481/carfinco-increases-cash-dividend-by-16-7

[jeremy]

P&G Declares a 7% Dividend Increase

The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE: PG) announced that its Board of Directors declared an increase in the quarterly dividend from $0.525 to $0.562

[ThinkDividends]

Sprott Power (SPZ) increases dividend 33%