The company also boosted its semi-annual dividend rate by 20% to 81 cents, from 67.5 cents.
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Oracle also increased its quarterly dividend rate to 6 cents a share, from 5 cents.
Analog Devices also boosted its quarterly dividend rate to 25 cents, from 22 cents.
They resemble bonds in that their dividend rate is typically fixed, much like a bond coupon.
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If the Bush-era tax cuts are allowed to expire, the top dividend rate would hit 39.6 percent.
Intuit also said it has increased its quarterly dividend rate to 17 cents a share from 15 cents.
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The dividend rate chopped to the same 15% as for capital gains by the Bush tax cuts of 2003.
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In the absence of Congressional action, the current rate will expire, and the dividend rate will revert to ordinary income tax rates.
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The company also raised its annual dividend rate by 20 cents a share, or 44%, to 65 cents, boosting the yield to 2.4%.
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The Medicare tax will apply as enacted and should not be affected by whether the 15% dividend rate is extended or increased up to 39.6%.
But the lower capital gains and dividend rate don't expire until Dec. 31, 2008 and Silverblatt doubts Congress' failure to act this year would have much effect.
Taubman Centers has been paying dividends regularly and hiked its quarterly dividend rate by nearly 3% to 46.25 cents per share in the first quarter of 2012.
Even if you do take those profits out, you'll still be better off--paying a 15% corporate tax plus a 15% dividend rate--which works out to a combined 27.75%.
The current dividend rate affirms an annual yield of 2.9%.
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She thinks the company could boost its dividend rate by 13%-25% a quarter, which would take the rate up to 18-20 cents a quarter from the current 16 cents.
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Given these results, we expect to recommend an 18 percent increase to the dividend rate in June, as we align our yearly dividend increases with the annual CCAR process going forward.
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With this strong upside potential from both product and geographic expansion, combined with its solid dividend rate, I predict that this is one investment not likely to go out of style next season.
Unless Congress and the White House take action, the dividend rate will leap to 43.4% next year for investors in the top federal tax bracket the same rate that would apply to most bonds.
Although the overall dividend rate and yield remained relatively high throughout this period, it is also important to recognize that Vornado Realty Trust did cut their dividend several times as Funds From Operations modestly weakened.
The Dividend Integrity Index simply divides the past 5 year dividend growth rate by the dividend payout ratio, and listed values greater than one.
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Since 1978, the top earned income tax rate fell to 35% from 50%, the top capital gains tax rate fell to 15% from 39.9%, and the highest dividend tax rate fell to 15% from 70%.
What remains to be seen is if it can maintain its current dividend growth rate.
The reforms, lowering that dividend tax rate to individuals to 15%, went some way to changing this.
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Further the company had been rewarding its investors with a solid dividend growth rate and attractive share repurchases.
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We support efforts by some in Congress to extend the current 15% dividend tax rate to 2011 and beyond.
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Another potential complication is how the growing burden of financing the dividend could impact the dividend growth rate going forward.
The company has paid a dividend for over five years, with a dividend growth rate of 8.3% over that time.
Dividends fell out of favor in the 1990s when the dividend tax rate was roughly twice the rate of capital gains.
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