Wolverine World Wide, Inc. (WWW) Declares $0.12 Quarterly Dividend; 1% Yield + MORE

With the market hitting fresh 17 month highs, investors have to look hard in order to find attractively valued opportunities. Plenty of stocks such as Aflac (AFL), Emerson Electric (EMR), 3M (MMM) and Realty Income (O) ,which in early 2009 rewarded enterprising dividend investors with their highest yields in a decade, are now yielding much less…

Kinder Morgan, Inc. (KMI) is increasing its quarterly dividend by 2.7%, from $0.37 to $0.38 per share (press release). This is the second increase from KMI this year, coming after a 2.8% increase in January. Given that I own a total of 90 shares of KMI (40 in my taxable account and 50 in my Roth IRA), my quarterly dividend increases from $33…

Interesting turn of events in the last few weeks.  After making a case that Google was making a big mistake in trying to go after same-day shipping and that it should focus on areas where it would have an edge (retail stores and Google Fiber),  Google announced it was moving on to Austin, Texas as its second Fiber city…

Linear Technology Corp. (NASD: LLTC) has been named to the Dividend Channel ”S.A.F.E. 25” list, signifying a stock with above-average ”DividendRank” statistics including a strong 3.0% yield, as well as a superb track record of at least two decades of dividend growth, according to the most recent ”DividendRank” report.

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The S&P 500 has had a strong upward rise over the last four years, including a sustained increase for the year-to-date in 2013. This pushed dividend yields lower throughout the market, meaning investors can’t buy as large of an income stream with their money.
Despite that, there have been some blue-chip stocks that have missed out on part of this increase…

The stock market is hotter than Tiger Woods’ golf game. But even though the Dow and S&P 500 are hitting new records on an almost daily basis, an interesting shift has taken place lately. Boring stocks are pulling a Justin Timberlake and bringing sexy back. (Perhaps in a suit & tie?) McDonald’s (MCD) is looking golden…

After work, I took a long walk downtown Montreal. The weather was great and I wasn’t in a hurry to return home following the “another” correction we had today on the stock market. It’s playing quite rough out there!Today, Telus Corp (T) completed its split! For now, Telus is trading about the same trading value as before the split…