Lowe's announced its 35th year of dividend growth this week. Photo: Flickr.com/Mike Mozart
In this Memorial Day week, there was only one dividend increase – home retailer Lowe’s Companies announced a 17% increase for its 35th year of dividend growth. Next week will also be slow; once again, only one company – retailer Casey’s General Stores – is scheduled to announce a dividend increase.
Dividend Increases Announced This Week
Industry: Specialty Retail
Dividend Payment: 48 cents per share – up 17.1% from prior level of 41 cents
Dividend Paid On: 8/8
Stock Goes Ex-Dividend (own the stock before this date to collect the dividend): 7/24
Number of Years of Dividend Increases: 35
Current Forward Yield: 2.00%
Dividend Increase Announcements Expected Next Week
Harvesting –
Appreciate you posting their div increase, pretty damn sweet if you ask me! Sadly I don’t own them, agh!
-Lanny
Lanny:
Thanks for the comment. I don’t own them either – it’s hard to find companies with 9 years of 10%+ dividend increases at good prices!
Cheers,
Jason