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Boeing Offers Shareholders 20% Quarterly Dividend Hike (BA)
Ned Piplovic | February 7, 2019
The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA) offered investors a quarterly dividend hike of 20.2% for the upcoming round of distributions, which marks the company’s seventh consecutive annual dividend boost. In addition to its seventh consecutive annual dividend hike, the Boeing Company raised its annual payout 15 times in the past two decades and managed to avoid cutting its dividend altogether over that time…
Fidus Investment Corporation 6% Notes due 2024
Tim McPartland | February 6, 2019
Date Issued 2/5/2019 Shares Issued 2,400,000 Overallotment 360,000 Security Ticker Symbol FDUSZ Market Traded ON NASDAQ Interest Payment Paid on the 15th of February, May, August and November beginning on 5/15/2019 Quarterly Interest .375 Annual Interest 1.50 Securities may be redeemed, at the issuers option, as early as 02/15/2021 for a redemption price of $25/share plus accrued interest Interest Payment Will NOT be Qualified…
Cherry Hill Mortgage 8.25% Series B Fixed-to-Floating Rate Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock
Tim McPartland | February 6, 2019
Date Issued 2/4/2019 Shares Issued 1,800,000 Overallotment Shares 270,000 S&P Rating NR Moodys Rating NR Security Ticker Symbol CHMI-B OTC TempTicker CRYIP Market Traded ON NYSE Dividend Payment Paid on the 15th of January, April, July and October beginning on 4/15/2019 Quarterly Dividend .516 Annual Dividend 2.06 Coupon is fixed at 8.25% until 4/14/2024 afterwhich it will float at a rate of…

Income Investors Need to Stay Fully Invested
Tim McPartland | February 5, 2019
If we have written it once we have written it 100 times, “Income investors have to remain near fully invested if they want to realize top-notch returns.” The worst part of saying that income investors need to remain fully, or nearly fully, invested is that we don’t do a very good job ourselves of following our own advice. Many times,…

IBM Corporation Offers Shareholders 4.7% Dividend Yield (IBM)
Ned Piplovic | January 31, 2019
While boosting its annual dividend payout every year for two decades, the International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM) currently offers its shareholders significant income distributions with a dividend yield of 4.7%. In addition to the steady annual dividend growth, the company’s recent share-price pullback contributed to a 9.3% dividend yield increase from 4.3% to the current 4.7% level in the last six…