ORC - Dividends By The Numbers For August 2018
Standard and Poor's market attributes report came out a bit late this month, but with its release, we find that like the previous month, August 2018 has been a fairly solid month for the U.S. stock market.
The following chart shows the number of dividend increases and decreases that have been declared in each month since January 2004.
Let's run through the U.S. stock market's dividend numbers for August 2018:
- 3,552 firms issued some kind of declaration about their dividend policies during August 2018, which was up by 299 from the 3,253 that issued