Dividend checks continue to get fatter in corporate America, as more companies jack up their distribution rates.
Readers of the Income Investor newsletter can certainly appreciate that kind of thinking. Let's take a closer look at some of the companies that inched their payouts higher this past week.
We can start with Intel
The PC chip behemoth increased its quarterly dividend 7% to $0.225 a share. The new rate pushes Intel's yield to nearly 3.5%, and that's a pretty impressive level given the returns on fixed income and the historically stingy disbursements out of tech bellwethers.
Investors may be somewhat concerned that Intel is bumping its disbursements higher in a year when analysts are targeting flat bottom-line growth, but Intel is making more than enough to cover the payouts.
Vanguard Natural Resources
Motorola Solutions
Finally we have TAL International
Checks and balances
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