Agilent Technologies (A) will lower its quarterly dividend by 24.2 percent from $0.132 to $0.10 per share after spinning off Keysight Technologies (KEYS). Agilent has been paying a dividend since 2011, when the company started with an initial dividend of $0.10 per quarter.
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.