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Conseco cut its common dividend earlier this year, but continues to pay an annual dividend of 20 cents.

Thus, a company would need more capital today to meet its minimum capital requirements in more stressful scenarios and have the ability to continue making capital distributions, such as common dividend payments.

Vornado said it would pay 60percentt of its first-quarter common dividend in the form of new stock and 40percentt in cash; if it paid 60percentt of its dividends in stock in all four quarters, it could preserve nearly $400 million in cash this year.

"The corporation will continue to work with the Federal Reserve and intends to seek permission for a modest increase in its common dividend for the second half of 2011, through the submission of a revised comprehensive capital plan to the Federal Reserve," the bank said in the filing.

The common dividend yield is half a percentage point less than this preferred, but the common's payout is rising.

The loss of funds for the plant's construction rocked the company financially, drying up its bank credit, prompting directors to halt payments of dividends on common stock and giving it a string of losing quarters.

Any losses must be recovered before common dividends are resumed.

All accrued and current dividends on the preferred must be paid before the company pays any common dividends.

Also expected to be excluded would be preferred as well as common dividends by REITS since all their income is tax exempt.

Financials are currently the lowest yielding sector, Kleintop added, largely because the TARP led many institutions to focus on paying preferred shareholders rather than common dividends.