CR Bard Raises Dividend

After today’s close, CR Bard ($BCR) raised its quarterly dividend from 21 to 22 cents per share. That may not sound like a lot–it’s an increase of just 4.76%–but bear in mind that Bard has increased its dividend every year since 1972.

The dividend is payable on August 1, 2014 to shareholders of record at the close of business on July 21, 2014.

Shares of Bard have gotten dinged the last two days. Bard lost 4.7% on Tuesday and another 3.1% today. Given the new dividend, Bard now yields 0.64%.

Posted by on June 11th, 2014 at 4:52 pm


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