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In this review, I will make a summary of important and interesting news and events over the last week related to my portfolio holdings. Also, I will put together some interesting articles from other websites that caught my attention during the past week.
As the year is coming to an end and November is already over halfway through, it's time to report my dividend income for October. In October 2022, the dividend income for my portfolio was as follows:
Welcome and thanks for reading!
In this review, I will make a summary of important and interesting news and events over the last week related to my portfolio holdings. Also, I will put together some interesting articles from other websites that caught my attention during the past week.
Tuesday, November 8th the Board of Directors of Aflac Incorporated (AFL) announced a quarterly dividend increase of from $ 0.40 to $ 0.42 per share that’s payable March 1, 2023 to holders of record February 15, 2023. This represents a 5.0% increase over the last quarterly dividend.
Additionally, its Board of Directors authorized the purchase of up to 100 million shares of its common stock. This authorization is in addition to the 25.6 million shares as of September 30, 2022, that remained under the August 11, 2020 authorization, bringing the total number of shares available for purchase to approximately 125.6 million. The company anticipates that the repurchase of shares will be conducted from time to time in open market or negotiated transactions, depending on market conditions.
Welcome and thanks for reading!
In this review, I will make a summary of important and interesting news and events over the last week related to my portfolio holdings. Also, I will put together some interesting articles from other websites that caught my attention during the past week.
Friday, November 4th the Board of TELUS Corporation (TSE:T) announced a quarterly dividend increase of from CA$ 0.3386 to CA$ 0.3511 per share that’s payable January 3, 2023 to holders of record December 9, 2022. This represents a 3.69% increase over the last quarterly dividend.
It should be noted that this is the second increase in the last 12 months. In May 2022, TELUS increased quarterly dividend from C$ 0.3274 to C$ 0.3386 or 3.54%, bringing the annual increase to 7.24 per cent.
With current price CA$ 28.53 (yesterday's close), this raise brings their dividend yield to 4.92%.
Wednesday, November 2nd the Board of Directors of Main Street Capital Corporation (MAIN) announced a monthly dividend increase of from $ 0.22 to $ 0.225 per share that’s payable January 13, 2023 to holders of record January 6, 2023. This represents a 2.27% increase over the last monthly dividend.
Since its October 2007 initial public offering, Main Street has periodically increased the amount of its regular monthly dividends paid per share and has never reduced its regular monthly dividend amount per share.
In addition to the regular monthly dividends for the first quarter of 2023, the Board of Directors declared a supplemental cash dividend of $0.10 per share payable in December 28, 2022 to holders of record December 20, 2022.