Thursday, August 21st the Board of Directors of Altria Group, Inc. (MO) announced a quarterly dividend increase of from $1.02 to $1.06 per share, that’s payable October 10, 2025 to holders of record September 15, 2025. This represents a 3.92% increase over the last quarterly dividend. This increase marks the 60th dividend increase in the past 56 years.
At the current price of $67.68 (yesterday's close), this increase will raise MO's dividend yield to 6.26%.
August has already passed the halfway mark, summer is slowly drawing to a close, and autumn is around the corner. But before moving forward, it’s time to look back at my July dividend income results.
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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.
Friday, August 1st the Board of Directors of Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW) announced a quarterly dividend increase of from $1.50 to $1.61 per share, that’s payable October 10, 2025 to holders of record September 30, 2025. This represents a 7.33% increase over the last quarterly dividend.
At the current price of $256.89 (yesterday's close), this increase will raise ITW's dividend yield to 2.51%.
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.
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.
Wednesday, July 30st the Board of Directors of Essential Utilities, Inc. (WTRG) announced a quarterly dividend increase of from $0.3255 to $0.3426 per share, that’s payable September 2, 2025 to holders of record August 12, 2025. This represents a 5.25% increase over the last quarterly dividend.
Essential Utilities has paid consecutive quarterly cash dividends for 80 years and has increased the dividend 35 times in the last 34 years.
At the current price of $36.80 (yesterday's close), this increase will raise WTRG's dividend yield to 3.72%.