The Walt
Disney Company (DIS) declared an annual cash dividend of $1.15 per share, up 34
percent, or $0.29 per share, from the previous year. The dividend is payable on
January 8, 2015 to shareholders of record at the close of business on December
15, 2014.
The
Toronto-Dominion Bank announced that a dividend in an amount of forty-seven per
fully paid common share in the capital stock of the Bank has been declared for
the quarter ending January 31, 2015, payable on and after January 31, 2015, to
shareholders of record at the close of business on January 6, 2015.
Corning
(GLW) declared a quarterly dividend of $0.12 per share, a 20% increase in the
company’s quarterly common stock dividend. The 2015 first-quarter dividend is
payable on March 31, 2015, to shareholders of record on Feb. 27, 2015.
Stryker
Corporation (SYK) has increased its dividend 13% by declaring a quarterly
dividend of $0.345 per share payable on January 30, 2015, to shareholders of
record at the close of business on December 31, 2014.
Microsoft declared
a quarterly dividend of $0.31 per share. The dividend is payable March 12,
2015, to shareholders of record on Feb. 19, 2015. The ex-dividend date will be
Feb. 17, 2015.
Verizon
Communications (VZ) declared a quarterly dividend of 55 cents per outstanding
share, unchanged from the previous quarter. The dividend is payable on Feb. 2,
2015, to Verizon Communications shareowners of record at the close of business
on Jan. 9, 2015.
General
Dynamics (GD) declared a regular quarterly dividend of 62 cents per share on
the company’s common stock, payable February 6, 2015, to shareholders of record
on January 16.
And, Hess
Corporation (HES) declared a regular quarterly dividend of 25 cents per share
payable on the Common Stock of the Corporation on December 31, 2014 to holders
of record at the close of business on December 17, 2014.