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New Mountain Finance 5.75% Notes due 2023
Tim McPartland | September 22, 2018
Date Issued 9/20/2018 Shares Issued 2,000,000 Overallotment 300,000 S&P Rating NR Moodys NR Security Ticker Symbol NMFX Market Traded ON NYSE Interest Payment Paid on the 1st of January, April, July and November beginning on 1/1/2019 Quarterly Interest .359 Annual Interest 1.44 Securities may be redeemed, at the issuers option, as early as 10/1/2020 for a redemption price of $25/share…

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Boosts Quarterly Dividend 2.3% (CM)
Ned Piplovic | September 21, 2018
The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (NYSE:CM) rewarded its shareholders with a 2.3% quarterly dividend boost for the upcoming dividend distribution and also offers an above-average yield of 4.4%. The company has been distributing dividends for a century and a half and has missed a dividend hike only once in the past two decades. In addition to providing a reliable…

Edison International Offers Investors 3.6% Yield, 14 Consecutive Annual Dividend Hikes (EIX)
Ned Piplovic | September 20, 2018
Edison International (NYSE: EIX) -- one of the largest investor-owned utilities in the country -- has been providing its shareholders with consecutive annual dividend hikes for the past 14 years. In addition to nearly a decade-and-a-half of annual dividendhikes, the company also enhanced its share price more than three-fold over that period. The dividend hikes and the asset appreciation ensured…

Host Hotels & Resorts Offers 3.8% Dividend Yield (HST)
Ned Piplovic | September 20, 2018
Featured Images Source: Company Website Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (NYSE:HST) rewarded its shareholders with a 3.8% dividend yield and – aided by a double-digit-percentage share price growth – a total return of more than 20% over the past 12 months. The company cut its quarterly dividend only twice since 1999, with the most recent cut in early 2009 during the…

What Are Stock Dividends?
Jonathan Wolfgram | September 19, 2018
Stock dividends are distributions of a company’s earnings to shareholders in the form of additional shares of a company’s stock as a substitute for cash payments. Dividends are distributions of equity assets to a company’s existing shareholders. Stock dividends are an alternative to cash payouts, which are the most common method of dividend distributions. What are Stock Dividends? —…