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Dominion Resources Increases Dividend by 7.86%

Ani G Jan 30, 2017

Each day, companies across the globe announce upcoming dividend payouts. In our Dividend Payout Changes and Announcements tool, you’ll find all of the dividend increases, decreases, initiations, suspensions, updates and regular dividend announcements for a given day.

Below we present an analysis of the stocks that increased dividends last week. The latest payout is compared to the most recent payout before the dividend increase.

Following is a snapshot of the 15 major stocks that increased dividends last week. If investors simply purchase the stock prior to the ex-dividend date and then sell it either on the ex-dividend date or at some point afterward, they will be able to receive the dividend in their account.

To apply this strategy, you need to know when stocks go ex-dividend. You can find the latest ex-dividend dates for the stocks that interest you in our Ex-Dividend Date Search tool.

Find out which companies increased their dividends two weeks ago here.

Ticker	Company	Previous Payout	New Payout	Change	Ex-Dividend Date
(SCCO )	Southern Copper	$0.05	$0.08	60.00%	2/10/2017
(VLO )	Valero Energy Corporation	$0.60	$0.70	16.67%	2/13/2017
(BX )	Blackstone Group L.P.	$0.41	$0.47	14.63%	2/2/2017
(CMCSA )	Comcast	$0.14	$0.16	14.55%	4/3/2017
(SCHW )	Charles Schwab Corp.	$0.07	$0.08	14.29%	2/8/2017
(FIS )	Fidelity National Information Services	$0.26	$0.29	11.54%	3/15/2017
(APD )	Air Products & Chemicals	$0.86	$0.95	10.47%	3/30/2017
(D )	Dominion Resources	$0.70	$0.76	7.86%	3/1/2017
(KMB )	Kimberly-Clark	$0.92	$0.97	5.43%	3/8/2017
(PX )	Praxair	$0.75	$0.79	5.00%	3/3/2017
(CINF )	Cincinnati Financial	$0.38	$0.39	4.17%	3/20/2017
(NSC )	Norfolk Southern	$0.59	$0.61	3.39%	2/1/2017
(MMP )	Magellan Midstream Partners L.P.	$0.84	$0.86	2.09%	2/1/2017
(LVS )	Las Vegas Sands	$0.72	$0.73	1.39%	3/21/2017
(HCN )	Welltower Inc	$0.86	$0.87	1.16%	2/3/2017

Stocks With the Highest and Lowest Market Cap

Criteria	Ticker	Company Name	Market Cap ($B)	Annualized Payout	Previous Payout	Next Payout	Ex-Dividend Date	Yield	% Off From 52-Week High
Highest Market Cap	(CMCSA )	Comcast	$182.81	$0.63	$0.14	$0.16	4/3/2017	0.83%	1.20%
Lowest Market Cap	(SDT )	SandRidge Mississippian Trus	$0.05	$0.22	$0.05	$0.05	2/8/2017	12.29%	52.80%

Stocks With the Highest and the Lowest Dividend Yield

Criteria	Ticker	Company Name	Market Cap ($B)	Annualized Payout	Previous Payout	Next Payout	Ex-Dividend Date	Yield	% Off From 52-Week High
Highest Dividend Yield	(SDR )	SandRidge Mississippian Trust II	$0.08	$0.25	$0.06	$0.06	2/8/2017	14.59%	1.47%
Lowest Dividend Yield	(HNNA )	Hennessy Advisors Inc	$0.14	$0.20	$0.07	$0.08	2/8/2017	0.70%	28.10%

Stocks With the Best and the Worst 52-Week Performance

Criteria	Ticker	Company Name	Market Cap ($B)	Annualized Payout	Previous Payout	Next Payout	Ex-Dividend Date	Yield	% Off From 52-Week High
Highest 52-Week Off	(SDT )	SandRidge Mississippian Trust	$0.05	$0.22	$0.05	$0.05	2/8/2017	12.29%	52.80%
Lowest 52-Week Off	(AJG )	Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.	$9.72	$1.56	$0.38	$0.39	3/1/2017	2.86%	0.05%

Dividend Aristocrats

There were six dividend aristocrats that increased dividend last week:

Ticker	Company Name	Market Cap ($B)	Annualized Payout	Previous Payout	Next Payout	Ex-Dividend Date	Yield %	Dividend Growth Years
(CINF )	Cincinnati Financial	$11.62	$2.00	$0.38	$0.39	3/20/2017	2.83%	56
(CWT )	California Water Services Group	$1.65	$0.72	$0.17	$0.18	2/2/2017	2.07%	49
(SJW )	SJW Corp	$1.02	$0.87	$0.20	$0.22	2/2/2017	1.73%	49
(BKH )	Black Hills Corp	$3.28	$1.78	$0.42	$0.45	2/13/2017	2.87%	47
(KMB )	Kimberly-Clark	$43.38	$3.88	$0.92	$0.97	3/8/2017	3.21%	44
(APD )	Air Products & Chemicals	$30.93	$3.80	$0.86	$0.95	3/30/2017	2.68%	34