Nearly at the midpoint of the quarter, Political Calculations' near real-time sampling of dividend declarations from data published by Seeking Alpha and the Wall Street Journal indicates that 2019-Q4 is looking very much like 2018-Q4, just under in the count of dividend cuts announced in the quarter to date at this point.
44 calendar days into the fourth quarter of 2019, we've counted 29 dividend cut announcements, which compares with 27 in 2019-Q4, 35 in 2019-Q2, and 20 in 2019-Q3.
Breaking the dividend cut data down by type of payer, we find 18 firms that