Over the past week, the following companies either announced a dividend increase, initiated a dividend, or declared a special dividend…

  • Wynn Resorts (WYNN) announced a $8.00 cash dividend, which includes the $.50 quarterly dividend. This dividend will be payable on November 20 to stockholders of record on November 7.
  • Apple (AAPL) declared a cash dividend of $2.65 per share payable on November 15, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on November 12.
  • Hershey (HSY) announced a quarterly dividend increase to $.42 from $.38. The dividend is payable December 14 to stockholders of record  on November 23.
  • Visa (V) declared a dividend increase of 50% to $.33 per share. The increase up from $.22 per share will be payable on December 4 to all holders of record of the Company’s class A, class B and class C common stock as of November 16.
  • Bar Harbor Bankshares (BHB) announced a dividend increase of 1.7% to $.30. The quarterly cash dividend is payable to all shareholders of record as of the close of business November 16, and will be paid on December 14.
  • Honeywell (HON) announced a 10% increase, or $.15 per share, in its dividend. The new $.41 dividend is an increase from $.3725 and  is payable on December 10 to share owners of record at the close of business on November 20.
  • Weyerhaeuser (WY) raised quarterly dividend by 13% to $.17 per share.
  • Six Flags (SIX) increased its quarterly dividend by 50% to $.90 per share.
  • BBCN Bank (BBCN) announced a quarterly dividend of $.05 per share. All stockholders of record as of November 1, will be paid a cash dividend of $.05 per common share, payable on or about November 12.
  • Metals USA (MUSA) declared its first regular quarterly cash dividend of $.06 per share. The dividend will be paid on November 27 to stockholders of record as of the close of business on November 13.
  • Waste Connections (WCN) announced that its board of directors has declared an 11.1% increase, to $.10, in the regular quarterly cash dividend on the company’s common stock. The dividend is payable on November 19, to stockholders of record on the close of business on November 5.
  • VF Corp. (VFC) increased its quarterly dividend 21% to $.87 per share. The dividend is payable December 20 to shareholders of record on December 10.
  • Buckeye Technologies (BKI) announced a dividend increase of 12.5% to $.09. The dividend is payable on December 14 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on November 14. The quarterly dividend represents a 12.5% increase over the $.08 per common share paid last quarter.
  • Met-Pro Corporation (MPR) announced that the company’s board of directors has declared a 2.1% cash dividend increase, to $.0725, which will be payable on December 17 to shareholders of record at the close of business on December 3.
  • IDT Corp (IDT) announced a special $.60 dividend, yet suspended 2013 quarterly dividends. The special dividend will be paid on or about November 13, to stockholders of record of as of the close of business on November 5.
  • UMB Financial (UMBF) announced a quarterly dividend increase to $.215 per share from $.20 per share. The dividend will be payable on December 28, to shareholders of record at the close of business on December 10.
  • Rollins (ROL) announced a special cash dividend of $.12 per share payable December 10 to stockholders of record at the close of business by November 9.
  • HCA Holdings (HCA) announced a special dividend of $2.50 per share. The dividend will be paid to shareholders of record as of November 2 with a payment date of November 16.
  • Berkshire Hills Bancorp (BHLB) announced an increase to its dividend to $.18. The dividend will be paid to shareholders of record at the close of business on November 8 payable on November 21.
  • Access National (ANCX) announced it will increase its dividend 33% to $.08 from $.06 per share. The dividend is payable on November 23 to holders of record as of November 7.
  • Middlesex Water (MSEX) announced it will raise its dividend to $.1875 from $.185. The quarterly cash dividend will be payable on December 3 to shareholders of record as of November 15.
  • Brown & Brown (BRO) announced an increase in the quarterly cash dividend rate to $.09 per share, a 5.9% increase from the current rate of $.085 per share, with the first payment at the new dividend rate to be made on November 14 to shareholders of record on November 7.
  • Paychex (PAYX) announced a dividend increase to $.33 and authorized $350 million in stock buybacks. The $.01 dividend increase is payable November 15 to shareholders of record November 2.
  • Noble Energy (NBL) announced it will raise its quarterly dividend to $.25 from $.22 per share. The dividend is payable November 19 to the shareholders of record on November 5.
  • Energen (EGN) declared a quarterly cash dividend of $.14 per share payable December 3 to shareholders of record on November 15.
  • MB Financial (MBFI) declared a dividend increase to $.10, and authorized $1 million in share repurchase. The dividend is payable on November 30 to holders of record of the company’s common stock as of November 15.
  • Home BancShares’s (HOMB) parent company of Centennial Bank, declared a regular $.13 per share quarterly cash dividend payable December 5 to shareholders of record November 14. This cash dividend represents a $.05 per share, or 62.5%, increase over the $.08 cash dividend paid during 4Q11 and is an 8% increase over the cash dividend paid during Q3.
  • MSC Industrial (MSM) announced a dividend increase of 20% to $.30 per share up from $.25 per share. The $.30 dividend is payable on November 21 to shareholders of record at the close of business on November 7.
  • National Penn Bancshares (NPBC) announced a quarterly dividend increase to $.10 from $.09 per share. The cash dividend will be paid November 16 to shareholders of record as of November 3.

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  • Eastern Company (EML) declared a regular $.10 dividend, in addition to a one-time extra $.10 dividend. The dividends are payable December 14 to common stock shareholders of record as of November 21.
  • Penn Virginia Resource Partners (PVR) declared a quarterly dividend increase to $.54 from $.53. The dividend is payable in cash on November 14 to common unitholders of record at the close of business on November 7.
  • Tennant (TNC) announced a 6% increase to its quarterly dividend, or $.18 per share. The dividend is payable on December 14, to shareholders of record on November 30.
  • Stepan Company (SCL) announced a 14% increase in its annual dividend to $1.28. The annual dividend rate after the split will be $.64 per common share.
  • Spectra Energy Partners (SEP) declared an increase to its quarterly cash dividend raising it to $.49 per share. This is the 20th consecutive quarter that Spectra Energy Partners has increased its quarterly cash distribution. The cash distribution is payable on November 14, to unitholders of record at the close of business on November 6. This quarterly cash distribution equates to $1.96 per unit on an annual basis.
  • Marine Products (MPX) declared a special year-end dividend of $.55 per share. This special dividend is in addition to the normal quarterly dividend of $.02 per share. Both dividends will be paid on December 10 to shareholders of record as of November 9.
  • Prosperity Bancshares (PB) announced it will raise its dividend to $.215 from $.19.
  • Macerich (MAC) announced a 5.5% increase to its dividend raising it to $.585 per share. The dividend is payable on December 7 to stockholders of record at the close of business on November 12.
  • Intersections (INTX) announced a special dividend of $.50 per share, and a quarterly cash dividend of $.20 per share. Both dividends are payable on November 30 to stockholders of record as of November 20.
  • NewMarket (NEU) announced a special dividend of $25 per share. The dividend is payable on November 27 to NewMarket shareholders of record at the close of business on November 7.
  • Rockville Financial (RCKB) announced it will raise its quarterly dividend to $.10 from $.09.
  • Alliance Fiber Optic (AFOP) announced they will pay a cash dividend of $.25 per share, and one-time special cash dividend of $1.00 per share. Both cash dividends will be paid on December 11 to the record holders of AFOP common stock as of the close of business on November 30.
  • Federated Investors (FII) declared a $1.75 dividend, including a $1.51 special dividend in addition to their $.24 regular dividend. The dividend is payable on November 15, to shareholders of record as of November 8.
  • Peoples Bancorp (PEBO) announced an increase of 9% in their dividend bringing it to $.12 per share. This quarterly dividend is payable on November 19 to common shareholders of record on November 5.
  • Washington Banking Company (WBCO), the holding company for Whidbey Island Bank, declared a quarterly cash dividend of $.15, up from $.09, per common share to shareholders of record on November 5 and payable on November 20.
  • Techne Corporation (TECH) announced a dividend of $.30 per share, up from $.28 per share for the quarter that ended September 30. The quarterly dividend will be payable November 19 to all common shareholders of record on November 5.
  • Starwood Hotels (HOT) announced a 150% increase in annual dividend to $1.25.
  • NuStar GP Holdings (NSH) has declared a 10.1% increase to $.545 per unit. This distribution is up from the $.495 distribution for Q3 2011. The distribution will be paid on November 16 to holders of record as of November 9.
  • Global Partners (GLP) announced a quarterly dividend increase to $.5325 per share. The distribution will be paid November 14, to unitholders of record as of the close of business November 5. The increase represents a 1.4% increase over the quarterly distribution of $.525 per unit paid in August 2012.
  • MarkWest Energy Partners (MWE) announced a cash distribution of $.81 per common unit for Q3, an increase of $.08 per common unit, or 11.0% compared to the Q3 2011 distribution. The Q3 distribution is payable November 14 to unitholders of record on November 7.
  • First American (FAF) announced a 50% increase in its quarterly cash dividend. The new dividend will be $.12, up from $.08 per share. The dividend is payable on December 31 to shareholders of record as of December 14.
  • StellarOne (STEL) announced a quarterly dividend increase of 33% up to $.08 per share. The dividend is payable on November 27, to shareholders of record as of November 6.
  • Evercore Partners (EVR) announced an increase to its quarterly dividend raising it to $.22 per share.
  • Rock-Tenn (RKT) announced it will riase its dividend to $.225 from $.20. The dividend, which will be paid on November 19, represents an annual dividend rate of $.90 per share.
  • Union First Market (UBSH) declared a 20% increase to its dividend raising it to $.12 per share from $.10. The dividend is payable on November 30 to shareholders of record as of November 16.
  • Inergy Midstream (NRGM) announced a increase to its quarterly dividend raising it to $.385 per share or $1.54 annually. The distribution will be paid on November 14 to unitholders of record as of November 7.
  • Alliance Holdings (AHGP) announced a 3.2% increase to its quarterly dividend. The new $.72 dividend will be paid on November 19 to unitholders of record as of the close of trading on November 12.
  • LyondellBasell (LYB) declared a special dividend of $2.75 per share to be paid December 11 to shareholders of record November 19. The special dividend is separate from and in addition to the company’s interim dividend of $0.40 per share, which has yet to be approved by its board.
  • SCBT Financial (SCBT) declared a 5.9% increase to its quarterly dividend bringing it up to $.18 per share from $.17. The dividend will be payable on November 23, to shareholders of record as of November 16.
  • Newell Rubbermaid (NWL) announced a 50% increase in quarterly dividend to $.15 per share.

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