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Realty Income to Acquire VEREIT for $16 Billion; Dividend Remains Secure

Realty Income on Thursday announced plans to acquire VEREIT, a retail REIT about half of its size. The all-stock transaction is...

Apr 29, 2021

Pfizer Decides to Maintain Full Dividend Despite Spin-off as Covid Vaccine Demand Boosts Earnings

Since announcing in July 2019 plans to spin off its established drug business, Pfizer has communicated it would lower its dividend to...

Apr 22, 2021

Potential Nicotine Reduction Proposal Weighs on Altria's Longer-term Outlook

The Biden administration is considering proposals to ban menthol and reduce nicotine levels in cigarettes to non-addictive levels, the...

Apr 21, 2021

Coca-Cola's Volume Returns to Pre-Pandemic Levels; Tax Case Uncertainty Still Looms

With vaccine availability increasing and more economies opening up, Coca-Cola on Monday reported that its total sales volumes in March...

Apr 20, 2021

JPMorgan Positioned for Dividend Increase This Summer as Capital Restrictions Ease

In response to economic uncertainty created by the pandemic, the Federal Reserve last year imposed additional capital preservation...

Apr 8, 2021

AT&T Can Sustain Dividend But Delayed Deleveraging Reduces Margin for Error

AT&T purchased $27.4 billion of spectrum at the Federal Communications Commission's recent record-setting auction and plans to...

Mar 23, 2021

PPL Seals Deal to Sell UK Assets, Buy a US Utility; Dividend Reduction Expected Within 12 Months

PPL since August has been shopping its U.K. utility operations, which generated 53% of the firm's adjusted earnings last year. On...

Mar 18, 2021

A Review of How Dividend Safety Scores Performed During the Pandemic

This review was first published in our January 2021 monthly newsletter sent to subscribers of our service and is written by our founder,...

Mar 16, 2021

Excess Industry Capacity Not Enough to Disrupt Enterprise's Distribution

We have been watching Enterprise Products Partners closely in light of the substantial excess capacity in the midstream industry....

Mar 12, 2021

Iron Mountain's Restructuring Progress Improves Dividend's Sustainability

Iron Mountain reported earnings on Wednesday and delivered better-than-feared results for the year. Sales in 2020 fell 3%, and...

Feb 25, 2021