Chasing the Yield

Investing for income through dividends and distributions

  • Fastenal Company (FAST) increases dividend by 10%, its 27th consecutive annual increase

    Fastenal Company (FAST) increases dividend by 10%, its 27th consecutive annual increase

    Fastenal Company (Nasdaq:FAST) (collectively referred to as ‘Fastenal’ or by terms such as ‘we’, ‘our’, or ‘us’) reported its board of directors declared a dividend of $0.43 per share to be paid in cash on February 28, 2025 to shareholders of record at the close of business on January 31, 2025. Except for share and…

  • Consolidated Edison (ED) increases dividend by 2.4%, its 51st consecutive annual increase

    Consolidated Edison (ED) increases dividend by 2.4%, its 51st consecutive annual increase

    Consolidated Edison, Inc. (Con Edison) (NYSE: ED) declared a quarterly dividend of 85 cents a share on its common stock, payable March 14, 2025 to stockholders of record as of February 19, 2025, an annualized increase of 8 cents over the previous annualized dividend of $3.32 a share. “The 51st consecutive annual dividend increase for stockholders extends our record for the longest period of consecutive…

  • Plains GP Holdings (PAGP) increases dividend by 20%

    Plains GP Holdings (PAGP) increases dividend by 20%

  • Enterprise Products Partners (EPD) increases dividend by 1.9%, its 26th consecutive annual increase

    Enterprise Products Partners (EPD) increases dividend by 1.9%, its 26th consecutive annual increase

    Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE: EPD) (“Enterprise”) announced today that the board of directors of its general partner declared a quarterly cash distribution to be paid to Enterprise common unitholders with respect to the fourth quarter of 2024 of $0.535 per unit, or $2.14 per unit on an annualized basis. The quarterly distribution will be paid Friday, February 14, 2025, to…

  • 7 reasons to be skeptical of today’s U.S. stock market

    7 reasons to be skeptical of today’s U.S. stock market

    Here they are in no particular order. Simply Safe Dividends (This is not an ad. I pay for this service.) published their note on the past year and they illustrated how much of the market is concentrated in just a handful of stocks which all of them are in the technology sector. An individual investor…

  • Bank OZK (OZK) increases dividend by 2.4%

    Bank OZK (OZK) increases dividend by 2.4%

    Bank OZK (the “Bank”) (Nasdaq: OZK) announced its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend on the Bank’s common stock of $0.42 per share, up $0.01, or 2.44% from the prior quarter. The common stock dividend is payable on January 21, 2025 to shareholders of record as of January 14, 2025. Bank OZK has increased its quarterly cash dividend on its common stock…