Sentence examples for rising dividends from inspiring English sources

Will they forgo rising dividends in the interests of new technology for the British postal service?

Sanford C. Bernstein raised its recommendation for the company to outperform, from market perform, citing rising dividends and energy orders starting in 2012.

The market's punishment has been "indiscriminate," said Paul Wayne, co-manager of the Kayne Anderson Rising Dividends fund, which holds Bestfoods stock.

Besides its dominant market position, 3M has a strong balance sheet and has had consistently rising dividends for 40 years, he added.

And it is keeping shareholders sweet with steadily rising dividends and a share-buyback programme.But today's frantic dealmaking means conglomerates such as GE find it harder to argue that they are worth more than the sum of their parts.

And this is before the market enters the third and fourth quarters, periods when shares of companies with rising dividends tend to perform better than in the first half of the year, according to Oppenheimer research.

"I strongly suspect that if there's no more bad news, they can maintain the dividend, said Donald Taylor, manager of the Franklin Rising Dividend fund.

The bank said: St James's Place remains a key pick – we see no change to the attractive combination of rapidly growing funds under management, rising dividend and lack of balance sheet exposure.

The company has a history of paying a rising dividend for 52 consecutive years.

The appeal to investors is a fat (and so far steadily rising) dividend payout.

While stock prices have been steadily rising, dividend payments have been erratic since the 1991 recession.