Dividend Track Records

Oil services company Schlumberger (SLB) will hike its dividend by 40 percent to 17.5 cents quarterly. This is the first increase by SLB since 2015. The next SLB dividend will be baid on July 14, 2022 to shareholders of record on June 1, 2022. The new annualized dividend rate of 70 cents per share yields 1.7% at a stock price of $39. Schlumberger NV is a provider of technology for reservoir characterization, drilling, production, and processing to the oil and gas industry. The company operates worldwide and provides a range of products and services, from exploration through production, and integrated pore-to-pipeline solutions that optimize hydrocarbon recovery to deliver reservoir performance sustainably. Schlumberger has paid a quarterly dividend since 1957. The original Schlumberger business was founded in 1926 by the brothers Conrad and Marcel Schlumberger, two French engineers and physicists, to provide wireline logging services (electronic measurement of underground formations) fo...

Dividend Aristocrat Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) will increase its quarterly dividend by 6.6 percent to $1.13 per share in the second quarter of 2022. This marks the 60th year of higher dividends by the health care giant.

As previously announced Qualcomm (QCOM) will raise its quarterly dividend by 10.3 percent to $0.75 per share in 2022. This comes after a hike of 4.6 percent to 68 cents per share in 2021 and marks the 19th consecutive year of dividend increases by the technology company. This new dividend hike for 2022 is the biggest by QCOM since 2016. The next dividend is payable on June 23, 2022, to stockholders of record at the close of business on June 2, 2022. A new annual dividend rate of $3.00 per share yields 2.1% at a stock price of $138. Qualcomm Incorporated manufactures digital wireless communications equipment. Qualcomm’s products principally consist of integrated circuits (chips/chipsets) and system software used in mobile devices and in wireless networks. Qualcomm's technologies and products are used in mobile devices and other wireless products, including network equipment, broadband gateway equipment, consumer electronic devices and other connected devices. Trademarks of Qualcomm ...

Procter & Gamble has now raised its dividend 66 consecutive years in 2022. Dividend Aristocrat Procter & Gamble (PG) will raise its quarterly dividend by 5 percent to $0.9133 per share in 2022. Last year PG announced a 10 percent dividend hike and the company has now raised its dividend 66 years in a row.

Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. (PAA) will raise its quarterly distribution by 20.8 percent to 21.75 cents in Q2 of 2022. PAA last cut its quarterly distribution by 50.0 percent to $0.18 per common unit in 2020.  The next distribution will be payable on May 13, 2022 to holders of record at the close of business on April 29, 2022. A new annual rate of $0.87 per unit yields 7.8% at a stock price of $11.15 for PAA. Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. is a publicly traded master limited partnership that owns and operates midstream energy infrastructure and provides logistics services for crude oil, natural gas liquids ("NGL"), and natural gas. PAA owns a network of pipeline transportation, terminalling, storage, and gathering assets in key crude oil and NGL producing basins and transportation corridors and at major market hubs in the United States and Canada. On average, PAA handles more than 6 million barrels per day of crude oil and NGL in its Transportation segment. PAA is h...

Plains GP Holdings (PAGP) will raise its quarterly distribution by 20.8 percent to $0.2175 per share in 2022. This follows a cut of 50.0 percent to 18 cents per share in 2020.  The next PAGP distribution will be payable on May 13, 2022 to holders of record at the close of business on April 29, 2022. A new annual rate of $0.87 per share yields 7.3% at a stock price of $11.94. Plains GP Holdings is a publicly traded entity that owns an indirect, non-economic controlling general partner interest in PAA and an indirect limited partner interest in PAA, one of the largest energy infrastructure and logistics companies in North America. PAGP is headquartered in Houston, Texas.