Gramercy Capital, a commercial mortgage REIT, will pay a regular quarterly dividend of $0.56 on January 12 to holders as of Wednesday, December 27. The dividend is up 5 cents, or 9.8 percent, from the previous payout.

Deerfield Triarc Capital, a financial REIT, will pay a regular quarterly dividend of $0.42 on November 27 to holders as of Wednesday, December 27. That’s 2.5% of the share price of $16.780, or a 10% annual yield. This increased its quarterly dividend by 5 percent from 40 cents per share.

Thornburg Mortgage, a diversified REIT, will pay a regular quarterly dividend of $0.68 on November 1 to holders as of Wednesday, December 27. That’s 2.7% of the share price of $24.800, or a 11% annual yield.

Imperial Sugar will pay a special dividend of $3.00 on January 5 to holders as of Thursday, December 21. That’s 10.9% of the share price of $27.480. Like many commodities, Sugar seems to be a good business those days: gross-profit margin sweetened to 15.5 percent in the latest quarter from 4.7 percent last year, in […]

Buckle Inc. will pay a special dividend of $3.00 on January 2 to holders as of Wednesday, December 20. That’s 6% of the share price of $50. BKE will also do a 3:2 stock split payable in the form of a stock dividend to shareholders as of December 31, 2007. Finally, there will be a […]

Restaurant operator BABB Inc will pay a dividend of $0.04 on January 11 to holders as of Tuesday, December 19. This includes a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.02 per share, and a special dividend of $0.02 per share, for a total of $0.04 per share, or about 4 percent of the share price. This […]

High-profile mortgage company New Century Financial will pay a regular quarterly dividend of $1.90 on January 31 to holders as of Wednesday, December 27. That’s 5.3% of the share price of $35.710, or a 21% annual yield. NEW has been steadily increasing its quarterly dividend till January 2005, but keep an eye on the rise […]

Resource Capital, a commercial financial REIT, will pay a regular quarterly dividend of $0.43 on January 4 to holders as of Wednesday, December 13. That’s 2.6% of the share price of $16.550, or a 10% annual yield. This includes $0.38 per common share for the quarter ended December 31, 2006. RSO also declared a special […]

City Bank, will pay a dividend of $1.15 on January 12 to holders as of Wednesday, December 20. The payout includes a $1 special dividend in addition to the $0.15 regular dividend. The company will do a 3:2 split early december, so the $1.00 special cash dividend actualy translates into a pre-split cash dividend of […]

Parke Bank will pay a special dividend of $0.20 on December 22 to holders as of Friday, December 8. This is the regional bank’s first ever dividend. Very illiquid stock though.

Frontline, an oil tanker shipping company, will pay a regular quarterly dividend of $2.50 on December 21 to holders as of Tuesday, December 5. The dividend will be taxed in part as earning dividend, and in part as return of capital dividend. That’s 6.6% of the share price of $38.060, or a 26% annual yield. […]