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Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) has declared a cash dividend for the first quarter of 2017 of $0.80 per share on the company's common stock. The dividend is payable on March 14, 2017 to shareholders of record at the close of business on February 28, 2017. The ex-dividend date is February 24, 2017.

Watsco (WSO) has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $1.05 on each outstanding share of its Common and Class B common stock. The cash dividend is payable on January 31, 2017 to shareholders of record at the close of business on January 17, 2017.

LTC Properties (LTC) announced that it had declared a monthly cash dividend on its common stock for the first quarter of 2017. The Company declared a monthly cash dividend of $0.19 per common share per month for the months of January, February and March 2017, payable on January 31, February 28 and March 31, 2017, respectively, to stockholders of record on January 23, February 17 and March 23, 2017, respectively.

US Ecology (ECOL) declared that stockholders of record on January 20, 2017 will receive a quarterly cash dividend of $0.18 per common share, payable on January 27, 2017.

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