Not every company is slashing its dividend these days. Some of the market's better performers are easing up on their purse strings, sending more money out to their shareholders.
Readers of the Income Investor newsletter can certainly appreciate that kind of thinking. Let's take a closer look at four of the companies that inched their payouts higher last week.
Let's start with FactSet Research Systems
There are also headier payouts on tap at Molson Coors
NACCO Industries
Finally, we have Assurant
Some of these moves may not seem like much, but consider the less savory moves that took place last week:
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Acadia Realty Trust
(NYSE:AKR) and Apartment Investment & Management(NYSE:AIV) shaved their payouts, proving that real estate isn't out of the woods just yet. - Office furniture giant Herman Miller
(NYSE:MLHR) is slashing its yield by 75%. I guess the inventor of the cubicle and the high-end Aeron chair is boxed into a difficult situation with companies scaling back.
Subscribers to the Income Investor newsletter can appreciate the companies sending more and more money to their investors. The newsletter singles out companies that are committed to growing their distributions with market-thumping results.
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