Activity this week
Increased dividends
Altria Group .565 from .52 Brinker Intl .32 from .28 Community Bank System .31 from .30
Connecticut Water Svc .2675 from .2575
Delta Natural Gas .205 from .20 Dillard’s .07 from .06 FirstMerit .17 from .16 ITC Holdings .1875 from .1625 Intuit .30 from .25 MGE Energy .295
from .2825
Mainsource Financial .14 from .13
Peoples Bancorp NC .08 from .06 Stage Stores .15 from .14 Transocean .16 from .15 Werner Enterprises .06 from .05
Extra or special dividends
Targacept $1.6492 prior
to 1-7 reverse split
Initial dividends
Citi Trends .06Q
Reduced dividends
Crescent Pt Engy g .10M from .23M
Goldcorp .02M from .05M
Suspended or omitted dividend
Baytex Energy Energy XXI Silvercorp Metals
Stock splits this week
Targacept 1-7 reverse
Filed Chapter 11
Hercules Offshore
Acquisitions, mergers
Minimum value $100 million
Liberty InteractiveZulily ($2.4B)
Valeant Pharmaceuticals-Sprout Pharmaceuticals (Raleigh, N.C.) ($1B)
New stock listings NYSE Care Capital Properties Nasdaq Global and Global Select Markets
Zillow Group class C