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Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) is one of those companies that is categorized as a conglomerate by most financial analysis sector groupings.  It is not quite diversified enough by our count to be a true...
International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) is the largest Dow Jones Industrial Average component by far due to its share price.  If it was based on market capitalization like most indexes,...
Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) just became the newest dividend player when it comes to health insurers.  Maybe you aren’t happy about the cost of healthcare, but at least you can now collect higher...
Casinos are not generally thought of for having the world’s highest dividend payouts.  That may be slowly changing, particularly now that it seems that Las Vegas is fully mature and has more than...
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is one of the giant technology behemoths out there that has been criticized for quite some time for holding all of its cash for acquisitions and to keep its balance sheet...
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) is further capitulating to Elliott Management in an activist move.  Its CEO left under pressure last week and the restructuring addresses what Elliott had...
Tesoro Corporation (NYSE: TSO) is set to have its Initial Public Offering this week for its Tesoro Logistics LP (NYSE: TLLP).  Tesoro is looking to move to a more of a pure-play and moving to unlock...
The drug sector has become rather boring and investors already know all about the ongoing patent expiration threats that loom in the industry.  The good news is that the drug sector does still offer...
Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO) is seeing its stock do what many investors a decade ago might have bet against.  The stock is hitting what is an all-time high if you factor in the Philip Morris...
American Depository Receipts, or ADRs, are generally called American Depository Shares, or ADSs, now.  We found after some routine screens that there were many 3%, 4%, and 5% or higher dividend...
Valley National Bancorp (NYSE: VLY) was recently featured in our dividend watch for the already-high dividend yields that came out before the rest of the TARP banks were allowed to reinstate their...
On Wednesday morning will come the highly anticipated news regarding the first quarter earnings announcement from none other than Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM).  This single...
Time for the Daily Dividend… Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG) might have been up more today if the overall market was cooperating.  The world’s largest consumer products company already has a...
We have been featuring many REITs for their high dividends on our daily “Dividend Watch” pieces.  One sector which has not been tabulated and screened is the ability to make dividend payments...
It was Western Digital Corporation (NYSE: WDC) that started the good news flow again in the disk drive sector after it made a transformative acquisition. Now it is Seagate Technology PLC (NASDAQ:...