Equinix (EQIX) will increase its quarterly dividend by 14.3 percent from $1.75 to $2.00 per share in the first quarter of 2017.
The quarterly common stock dividend will be paid on March 22, 2017 to shareholders of record on February 27, 2017.
Equinix, Inc. is a data center REIT, connecting companies directly to their customers and partners across its interconnected data center and interconnection platform. The company's customers include enterprises, cloud and IT services providers, media and content companies, financial services firms, IoT and big data providers, and network and mobile services providers. The company has operations in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Equinix became a public company in 2000 and elected to be taxed as a REIT for federal income tax purposes effective January 1, 2015.