ConAgra (CAG)
| new payout |
% Increase |
Yield as of 10/1 |
Payment Date |
Record Date |
| $0.25/share |
4% |
3.62% |
Dec. 4 |
Oct. 31 |
Covidien (COV)
| New Payout |
% Increase |
Yield as of 10/1 |
Payment Date |
Record Date |
| $0.26/share |
16% |
1.75% |
Nov. 5 |
Oct. 11 |
Cummins (CMI)
| New Payout |
% Increase |
Yield as of 10/1 |
Payment Date |
Record Date |
| $0.50/share |
25% |
2.17% |
Sept. 1 |
Aug. 22 |
Expedia (EXPE)
| New Payout |
% Increase |
Yield as of 10/1 |
Payment Date |
Record Date |
| $0.13/share |
44.4% |
0.9% |
Sept. 18 |
Aug. 28 |
Travel site Expedia‘s (NASDAQ:EXPE) big-time dividend increase certainly was welcome, though the stock still yields less than 1%. And the new payout is a mere footnote compared to the stock’s performance in 2012. Expedia is the third best-performing stock in the S&P 500, having nearly doubled in just nine months!
Fastenal (FAST)
| New Payout |
% Increase |
Yield as of 10/1 |
Payment Date |
Record Date |
| $0.19/share |
11.8% |
1.77% |
Aug. 24 |
July 27 |
Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB)
| New Payout |
% Increase |
Yield as of 10/1 |
Payment Date |
Record Date |
| $0.10/share |
25% |
2.58% |
Oct. 18 |
Sept. 28 |
Harris (HRS)
| New Payout |
% Increase |
Yield as of 10/1 |
Payment Date |
Record Date |
| $0.37/share |
12% |
2.89% |
Sept. 19 |
Sept. 7 |
Like Expedia, Harris (NYSE:HRS) — a Florida-based communications and IT firm — has had a blowout 2012, netting shareholders 40%-plus gains through the first three quarters. And like Expedia, HRS decided to share a little more wealth with investors with a 12% payout hike earlier this year. Unlike Expedia, Harris’ nearly 3% yield isn’t something to sneeze at.
J.M. Smucker (SJM)
| New Payout |
% Increase |
Yield as of 10/1 |
Payment Date |
Record Date |
| $0.52/share |
8% |
2.41% |
Sept. 4 |
Aug. 10 |
Kinder Morgan (KMI)
| New Payout |
% Increase |
Yield as of 10/1 |
Payment Date |
Record Date |
| $0.35/share |
9% |
3.94% |
Aug. 15 |
July 31 |
Lockheed Martin (LMT)
| New Payout |
% Increase |
Yield as of 10/1 |
Payment Date |
Record Date |
| $1.10/share |
15% |
4.93% |
Dec. 28 |
Dec. 3 |
Marathon Petroleum (MPC)
| New Payout |
% Increase |
Yield as of 10/1 |
Payment Date |
Record Date |
| $0.35/share |
40% |
2.56% |
Sept. 10 |
Aug. 16 |
How is Marathon Petroleum (NYSE:MPC) doing after being spun-off from Marathon Oil (NYSE:MRO) more than a year ago? Pretty darn good, thanks for asking! MPC shares have returned 46% since July 2011, including a 64% run year-to-date. And most recently, it boosted its quarterly dividend by a whopping 40% to yield roughly 2.5%.
McDonald’s (MCD)
| New Payout |
% Increase |
Yield as of 10/1 |
Payment Date |
Record Date |
| $0.77/share |
10% |
3.36% |
Dec. 17 |
Dec. 3 |
How is McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) doing? Well … not as well as MPC. McDonald’s dividend increase is probably one of the year’s better pieces of news for MCD investors, who have watched their shares lose more than 8% this year while the rest of the market thrives.
Microsoft (MSFT)
| New Payout |
% Increase |
Yield as of 10/1 |
Payment Date |
Record Date |
| $0.23/share |
15% |
3.09% |
Dec. 13 |
Nov. 15 |
While Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is up 15% this year — good enough to rank fourth in our Top 10 Stocks for 2012 contest — there’s serious concerns about the company’s ability to rake in future gains amid a seeming decline in innovation over the years. Still, a dividend north of 3% should prove enough to entice at least a few more income investors.
Article printed from InvestorPlace Media, http://investorplace.com/2012/10/40-blue-chips-increasing-dividends-in-q3-2012/.
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