Agilent Technologies (A) will raise its quarterly dividend by 20% percent to $0.12 per share in April 2013. This results in a new dividend yield of 1.1%.

The increased dividend will be paid on April 24, 2013, to all shareholders of record as of the close of business on April 2, 2013.

Agilent Technologies Inc. has activities in life sciences, diagnostics and applied chemical markets. The company provides application focused solutions that include instruments, software, services and consumables for the entire laboratory workflow.