Lockheed Martin (LMT) will raise its quarterly dividend by 16.5 percent to $1.33 per share in the fourth quarter of 2013. In 2012 the defence company hiked its dividend by fifteen percent to $1.15 per share quarterly.

The increased dividend is payable on December 27, 2013, to holders of record as of ...

Amphenol (APH) will raise its quarterly dividend to $0.20 per share.

Amphenol Corporation is a manufacturer of electrical, electronic and fiber optic connectors, interconnect systems, antennas, sensors and sensor-based products and coaxial and high-speed specialty cables.

IT-services company Accenture (ACN) will raise its semi-annual dividend by 14.8 percent to $0.93 per share in the fourth quarter of 2013.

At the current stock price of $74 that results in a dividend yield of 2.5% for Accenture. The company pays a dividend since 2005. In 2010 Accenture switched from an ...

Banner Corporation (BANR) will raise its quarterly dividend by 25 percent from $0.12 to $0.15 per share in the fourth quarter of 2013.

Banner Corporation is a bank holding company. The Company is engaged in the business of planning, directing and coordinating the business activities of its subsidiaries, Banner Bank and Islanders Bank. 

Texas Instruments (TXN) will raise its quarterly dividend by 7.1 percent to $0.30 per share in 2013. This marks the semiconductor company's tenth consecutive year of annual dividend increases. Earlier this year the dividend was already increased by seven cents to $0.30 per share quarterly.

The next dividend is payable November ...

Yum! Brands (YUM) will raise its quarterly dividend to $0.37 per share.

Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, is a restaurant company. The company’s three concepts of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, develop, operate or franchise a worldwide system of restaurants which prepare, package and sell a menu of competitively priced ...

Sanderson Farms (SAFM) will hike its quarterly dividend to $0.20 per share.

Sanderson Farms, Inc. is a poultry processing company. The Company is engaged in the production, processing, marketing and distribution of fresh, frozen and minimally prepared chicken. It sells ice pack, chill pack, bulk pack and frozen chicken, in whole, cut-up and boneless ...