I just got an e-mail from S&P with some very good dividend numbers for the second quarter of 2011.
All told, U.S.-listed companies boosted their payments (from common shares) by $11.2 billion, which comes on the heels of $19 billio in new dividend money during the first quarter.
That means payments in the first half of the year rose 11.1% from the same period in 2010. And on top of that, they’ve already eclipsed the dollar value of ALL the dividend hikes that happened last year.
This is precisely what I’ve been predicting. And precisely why I’ve been urging investors to continue loading up on solid dividend stocks.
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