Money and Finance
Walmart Moves Dividend Forward
Walmart (WMT) moved their next dividend payment forward from early January 2013 to December 27, 2012. They did this to be help shareholders receive the payments before potential tax increases due to the fiscal cliff. There's too many tax issues that they just don't see getting resolved so they moved the payment forward. Other companies have announced plans to make their dividend payment earlier, but Walmart is by far the biggest company so far.
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Why Dividends Matter: The Calm In The Storm
Dividends. I love them. One of the reasons that dividends are so awesome is that they provide a positive portion of return that can't be taken away. If you receive a $50 dividend in cash that's a positive return. Forever. The company...
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Harris Corporation (hrs) Increases The Dividend
This morning Harris Corporation (HRS) announced an increase in the quarterly dividend. The payment increased from $0.42 to $0.47 or 11.9%. The new dividend rate is payable on September 23rd to shareholders of record as of September 9th. This...
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Recent Buy
Yesterday I bought 9 shares in Walmart at a price of $57.71 in my Roth IRA. Recently, reports of Walmart bribing officials in Mexico for preferential treatment have been released. While this is concerning, it's one of those situations where everyone...
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Loyal3 $500 Buy
In the past week I bought the following stocks in my Loyal3 account. Ticker $ invested Cost WalMart ...
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December Dividend Update
Time for my December dividend update, what a year it's been! My dividend total for the month of December was $285.71 which is a 34% improvement over last year but a 5.6% decrease from last quarter. The decrease in dividends this month was due to Walmart...
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