Archive for October, 2007

DO ex-dividend on 10/31 (1.2%, special)

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Diamond Offshore Drilling, an Oil and Gas drilling and exploration company, will pay a special dividend of $1.375 on Dec 3rd if you own the stock at market opening on Wednesday, October 31. This includes the regular dividend of $0.125 per share. DO is now considering paying special cash dividends, in amounts to be determined, […]

FRO ex-dividend on 10/10 (3%, special)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Frontline, an oil tanker shipping company, will pay a special dividend of $1.750 on Oct 24th if you own the stock at market opening on Wednesday, October 10. That’s 3.5% of the share price of $50.010. This follows the sale of FRO 16.55 pct stake in heavy lift spin-off Dockwise. Frontline will announce the tax […]

SUI ex-dividend on 10/10 (2.1%)

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

Sun Communities, a residential REIT, will pay a regular quarterly dividend of $0.630 on Oct 22nd to holders as of Wednesday, October 10. That’s 2.1% of the share price of $29.570, or a 9% annual yield. Dividend is flat over last quarter… quite an achievement for a real-estate company those days. Their strategy of converting […]

SFI ex-dividend on 10/11 (2.6%)

Monday, October 1st, 2007

iStar Financial, a commercial financial REIT, will pay a regular quarterly dividend of $0.825 on Oct 29th to holders as of Thursday, October 11. That’s 2.6% of the share price of $31.940, or a 10% annual yield.