The chipmaker can certainly afford to increase their dividend. Altera finished the second quarter with $2.1 billion in cash and virtually no debt on their balance sheet.
This marks the 43rd consecutive year that the dividend aristocrat has increased their dividend.
Are growth stocks really finding a better use for their cash piles than returning it to investors in the form of a dividend?
Investors that owned the following five companies have reaped the benefits of owning the best dividend stocks over the last 3 years.
This Canadian telecom offers investors an impressive 5.0% dividend yield and generated $2.65 billion in operating cash flow last year.
The thought of considering an airline stock as a dividend play is probably foreign to most investors.
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Gilead Sciences is a cash flow machine, but the stock has never paid a quarterly dividend.
It has been widely speculated that BP would be forced to suspend their dividend program given the political pressure they are facing to do so.
For weeks now, questions, rumors, speculation and predictions have been swirling about BP.
BP shares plunged nearly 16% today as investors dumped the stock since a dividend cut appears imminent.
Caterpillar Inc. announced today that the company will increase their quarterly dividend by 5% to $.44 per share.
In an indication that the global economy is improving, Sasol Ltd. announced today that they are resuming their dividend growth policy.
Fitch Ratings believes that BP's dividend is safe despite the widespread speculation of an imminent dividend cut.
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan was recently asked at a Sanford Bernstein analyst conference how large of a dividend increase should investors expect.
While gold stocks typically don’t offer great dividend yields, income investors should take another look at these stocks given the positive outlook for gold prices.
Dividends are why stocks generate better returns than bonds over the long term.
Don’t be fooled by AT&T and Verizon’s subpar performances this year, high yielding Dow dividend stocks are thriving in 2010.
Starbucks joins the ranks of dividend stocks after announcing this morning that the company will initiate a quarterly cash dividend of $.10 per share.
Kraft Food’s current dividend yield now stands at 3.9% and ranks 6th among the Dow Jones stock components.
Here are 5 dividend stocks offer investors impressively high dividend yields, and they also have sufficient free cash flow to maintain their dividend payments.