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 GameStop
The video game retailer may have posted soft sales and hosed down its outlook for store-level performance, but GameStop's cash-rich ways aren't getting in the way of larger distributions. GameStop's new quarterly rate is climbing 67% to $0.25 a share. When you tack that on to GameStop's post-report decline you get a yield of 5.4%.
Cisco
Blyth
Finally we have Pan American Silver
Checks and balances
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