Agilent Technologies (A) will raise its quarterly dividend by 10.1 percent to 16.4 cents per share. This follows a dividend increase from $0.132 to $0.149 per share last year.
The increased dividend of $0.164 per share will be paid on January 23, 2019 to shareholders of record on December 31, 2018.
A new annualized dividend of 65.6 cents per share yields 1.1% at a stock price of $66.82.
Agilent Technologies Inc. is a is a global leader in life sciences, diagnostics and applied chemical markets, providing application focused solutions that include instruments, software, services and consumables for the entire laboratory workflow. Agilent's operating segments are: Life Sciences and Applied Markets Business, Diagnostics and Genomics Business and Agilent CrossLab Business. Agilent Technologies Inc. was incorporated in Delaware in May 1999 and has paid a dividend every year since 2012.