Word: dividend
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stockholders, they have been delightfully anxious for six months. So have brokers in Wall Street. The company in six months has earned much money. Wherever two or three traders have been gathered together it has been whispered that the company would "cut a melon," market jargon for an increased dividend...
...through Dillon, Read & Co., and $4,000,000 in England, Switzerland, Holland, Sweden. An unusual feature of the proposed bonds is that they will draw interest and in addition will get 6½% more for every 1% increase in Vereinigte Stahlwerke's common stock dividend rate. The common rate is now 6%. If it becomes 1%, the new bonds will draw 1%; if common draws 8%, new bonds draw 71/6...
This inducement of. an extra dividend on bonds, which normally are sold to carry a fixed rate of interest, was experimented with last September by Siemens-Halske, German electrical organization, in selling its bonds in Manhattan. In their case the contingent bond interest was 1/3 of 1% when common stock rose above...
...Saylor, president and largest stockholder of Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc., wants to sell 7,500,000 cases (50 bottles each) of his ginger ale yearly. In 1926 he sold 1,360,000 cases; sales already made this year warranted his announcing last week a stock dividend increase from $2 to $3. Besides selling dry ginger ale the company sells "Sumoro Orange," a concentrated orange drink. Recently it bought out Caledonia Springs Corp. Ltd., of Canada, bottlers of "Magi" and "Adanac" table waters...
...Newspaper financial writers hastily calculated that the N. Y. C. was worth today $1,285,438,000. Last year the system's net income from operating trains (income from stock and land investments is figured separately) was $72,158,000-less than 6% of the estimated 1927 valuation. Dividend. New York Central directors last week announced a quarterly dividend of 2%. The annual dividend had been 1%; it is now 8%. Thus the N. Y. C. became the third major eastern railroad to increase its dividend rate within the twelvemonth. Last November the Pennsylvania changed from...