EGOV ex-dividend on 2/8 (13%, special)
Nic Inc, a provider of Web sites for government agencies, will pay a special dividend of $0.75 on February 20 to holders as of Thursday, February 8. That’s 13.4% of the share price of $5.590. On a side note, according to an academic study “Special dividends and the evolution of dividend signaling” http://marshallinside.usc.edu/ldeangel/Publications/SpecialDiv.pdf, 61.7 pct of NYSE firms paid special dividends in the 1940s, while only 4.9 percent of NYSE firms paid special dividends in the first half of the 1990s.

February 9th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
NIC, Inc. Declares Special Cash Dividend
January 31, 2007 NIC, Inc. announced that its Board of Directors has declared a special dividend of $0.75 per share payable on February 20, 2007,>>>>>( to shareholders of record on February 12, 2007)