Walmart (WMT) approved an annual cash dividend for fiscal year 2019 of $2.08 per share, an increase of 2 percent from the $2.04 per share paid for the last fiscal year. The fiscal year 2019 annual dividend of $2.08 per share will be paid in four quarterly installments of $0.52 per share.
The Home Depot announced that its board of directors declared a 15.7 percent increase in its quarterly dividend to $1.03 per share. The dividend is payable on March 22, 2018, to shareholders of record on the close of business on March 8, 2018.
Waste Management (WM) announced the declaration of a quarterly cash dividend of $0.465 per share payable March 23, 2018 to stockholders of record on March 9, 2018.
Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG) declared a quarterly common stock dividend for the first quarter of 2018 of $0.45 per share payable on March 30, 2018 to shareholders of record on March 8, 2018. This action represents a $0.02 per share, or 4.7% increase in the company's quarterly common stock dividend and brings the indicative annual dividend rate to $1.80 per share.
Halliburton (HAL) has declared a 2018 first quarter dividend of eighteen cents a share on the company's common stock payable March 28, 2018, to shareholders of record at the close of business on March 7, 2018.
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