Dividend Increase - Main Street Capital Corporation (MAIN)

 

Tuesday, November 5th the Board of Directors of Main Street Capital Corporation (MAIN) announced a monthly dividend increase of from $0.245 to $0.25 per share that’s payable January 15, 2025 to holders of record January 8, 2025. This represents a 2.04% increase over the last monthly dividend and a 4.2% increase from the regular monthly dividends paid in the first quarter of 2024.

In addition to the regular monthly dividends for the first quarter of 2025, the Board of Directors declared a supplemental cash dividend of $0.30 per share payable in December 2024.

With current price $51.74 (yesterday's close), this raise brings their dividend yield to 5.80%.

Main Street Capital is a Dividend Contenders with a 15 year streak of dividend increases. Dividend growth rates for 1, 3, 5 and 10 years are 5.8, 3.7, 3.6 and 4.0 (Dividend Champions.xls)

Since I own 155 shares of MAIN, this will increase my portfolio's projected annual net dividend income by $6.93.

This increase raises my Yield on Cost to 7.83%.

Summary of 2024 Dividend Increases / Cuts

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Full Disclosure: Long MAIN

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