Charter Financial, a community bank, will pay a special dividend of $1.75 on September 26 to holders as of Friday, September 8. That’s 4.6% of the share price of $38.420. This is in addition to the regular quarterly dividend of 45 cents per share paid late august.

Oil tanker operator Ship Finance International will pay a regular quarterly dividend of $0.52 on September 18 to holders as of Tuesday, August 29. That’s 2.5% of the share price of $21, or a 10% annual yield. SFL stated the payout includes “an ordinary cash dividend of $0.45 per share, and a supplementary extraordinary dividend […]

Frontline, an oil tanker shipping company, will pay a regular quarterly dividend of $1.50 on September 18 to holders as of Tuesday, August 29. That’s 3.4% of the share price of $43.890, or a 14% annual yield. Frontline will announce the tax treatment of this dividend shortly at http://www.frontline.bm/IR/tax_treatment.shtml, but it will likely be ~$1/share […]

Alon USA Energy will pay a dividend of $2.54 on September 14 to holders as of Wednesday, August 30. That’s 6.4% of the share price of $39.66. Of that amount, $2.50 is a special dividend, and 4 cent is the regular quarterly dividend. This comes after a $0.37 per share special payout in February. A […]

Dominion Resources Black Warrior Trust, a natural gas trust, will pay a regular quarterly dividend of $0.70 on September 8 to holders as of Friday, August 25. This represents a 1.8% yield.

Syntel, an IT service firm, will pay a special dividend of $1.25 on September 15 to holders as of Tuesday, August 29. That’s 5.6% of the current share price. Syntel received good press coverage recently for outsourcing nearly all its work to its Silicon Valley-style subsidiary in India. Strong Q2 results and guidance increase 2 […]

Anglo American, will pay a special dividend of $0.50 on October 13 to holders as of Wednesday, August 23. That’s 2.5% of the share price of $20. Soaring commodity prices and voracious global demand have lifted this stock nicely recently. Are you willing to bet this will continue indefinitly?

BCB Bancorp, a New Jersey community bank, will pay a special dividend of $0.30 on September 20 to holders as of Wednesday, August 30. The bank first ever dividend comes in spite of decreasing EPS due to a big jump in the number of outstanding shares.

Knightsbridge Tankers will pay a regular quarterly dividend of $0.80 on September 8 if you own the stock at market opening on Wednesday, August 23 (taxed as earning dividend).

Diana Shipping, a dry bulk transporter, will pay a regular quarterly dividend of $0.35 on August 31 to holders as of Wednesday, August 16 (taxed as earning dividend). That’s 2.7% of the share price of $13.050, or a 11% annual yield. Shipping rates have been highly volatile in the last few years, but tanker rates […]

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia will pay a Special dividend of $0.50 on September 14 to holders as of Tuesday, August 29. Nice way of celebrating the end of Martha Stewart’s three-year legal saga, as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission agreed to settle civil insider-trading charges with the domestic diva. Stewart seems to be “back […]

Hanover Capital Mortgage Holdings, a mortgage REIT, will pay a regular Quarterly dividend of $0.20 on September 5 to holders as of Thursday, August 17. Watch out for the small float and the negative cash flow. That is, except if you like to Day trade. And sorry, Keith, no option on HCM.

Genco Shipping and Trading will pay a regular Quarterly dividend of $0.60 on August 31 to holders as of Monday, August 14.

Business process outsourcer StarTek will pay a regular Quarterly dividend of $0.25 on August 24 to holders as of Thursday, August 10. Great top line results released last week. The stock took a dive because of pressure on margins, but no doubt their business is shining. Got some extra cash to invest longer term? Look […]

GMR will pay a dividend of $0.66 on September 8 to holders as of Wednesday, August 23. General Maritime will be paying a quarterly dividend of $0.66 per share on or about September 8, 2006 with a record date of August 25, 2006. The dividend amount was determined in accordance with the Company’s policy of […]