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Leggett & Platt's Board of Directors announced a dividend of $.38 per share for the second quarter, an increase of $.02 per share or 5.6% versus the dividend declared in the second quarter of 2017. The dividend will be paid on July 13, 2018 to shareholders of record on June 15, 2018. A member of Standard & Poor's Dividend Aristocrats, Leggett & Platt has increased its annual dividend for 47 consecutive years, a record that only ten S&P 500 companies currently exceed. At an annual indicated dividend of $1.52 per share, the yield is 3.6%, based upon yesterday's closing stock price of $41.75 per share. Accordingly, Leggett & Platt possesses one of the highest dividend yields among the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats.

Vermilion Energy is pleased to announce a cash dividend of $0.23 CDN per share payable on June 15, 2018 to all shareholders of record on May 31, 2018. The ex-dividend date for this payment is May 30, 2018.

Motorola Solutions today announced that its board of directors has approved a regular quarterly dividend of 52 cents per share payable in cash on July 13, 2018, to stockholders of record at the close of business on June 15, 2018.

The Board of Directors of Old Republic International have declared a quarterly cash dividend on the common stock of 19.5 cents per share. This dividend is payable June 15, 2018 to shareholders of record on June 5, 2018. Subject to Board approval of each quarter's new rate, the full year's cash dividend will amount to 78 cents per share compared to 76 cents paid in 2017. This latest dividend increase marks the 37th consecutive year that Old Republic has boosted its cash dividend rate, and 2018 becomes the 77th year of uninterrupted cash dividend payments.

Waste Management today announced the declaration of a quarterly cash dividend of $0.465 per share payable June 22, 2018 to stockholders of record on June 8, 2018.

For MarketNewsVideo.com, I'm Sayoko Murase.