Friday, January 05, 2007

Dividend Summary for 2006

Standard & Poor's reported that dividend payments continued to rise in 2006:
  • 1,969 of the approximately 7,000 publicly owned companies that report dividend information to S&P's Dividend Record increased their dividend in 2006.
  • This represents a 1% increase from the 1,949 companies that raised their dividend in 2005.
  • overall, the number of dividend payments rose 7.1% versus 2005 and a 16.1% increase over 2004
  • special or extra dividend payments increased 14.3% to 622 in 2006 versus 544 in 2005
S&P notes extra dividend payments have increased versus regular dividend increases in part due to the fact a company is not committing to a longer ongoing regular payment. From a dividend growth analysis perspective, special dividend payments are not given much weight in the analysis of dividend growth stocks.


Source:
S&P: Dividends Rise Slightly in 2006; Extras Surge
Yahoo!Finance
January 4, 2006, 10:42 am
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070104/nyth107.html?.v=81


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