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Since its divestiture from Abbot Labs in 2013, AbbVie, Inc. (NYSE:ABBV) has been rewarding its shareholders with rising dividends and steady asset appreciation. For the current quarter, the company hiked its dividend payout by one third and offers a 3.4% yield, which is almost 40% above the average yield of its peers in the Drug Manufacturers market segment. In addition…

Even after seven consecutive years of rising dividends, Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) rewarded its shareholders with another quarterly dividend hike of nearly 14% for the current quarter and a dividend yield of 3%. While the 3% yield does not seem very high, it is significantly higher than the average yield of the Technology sector and the highest yield in the…

Featured Image Source: Wikimedia Commons; Author: Matthew Bisanz The Toronto Dominion Bank (NYSE:TD) recently continued its long-standing history of dividend distributions with an 11.7% hike to its quarterly dividend, which currently yields 3.5%. The company has been distributing dividends for more than a century and a half and it has missed a dividend hike only once in the past two decades.…

Verizon Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VZ) suffered some asset depreciation since the end of January 2018 along with the overall market sell-off but the dip in the stock’s share price pushed the current dividend yield 9% higher to nearly 5%. The company’s current yield is significantly higher than the average yield of the entire Technology sector and is also above the simple…

The IBERIABANK Corporation (NASDAQ:IBKC) raised the quarterly dividend payout on its common stock 2.7% to boost its yield to 1.8%. However, the yield on the company’s Series C Preferred Stock currently exceeds 6%. Prospective investors should be aware that the company announced a $0.4125 quarterly dividend on the outstanding shares of its 6.60% Fixed-to-Floating Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series C,…