murphy oil corp mur said thursday it has raised its quarterly dividend by 10 to 275 cents a share from 250 cents a share the new dividend will be payable march 1 to shareholders of record on feb 13 the oil and gas company’s stock was still inactive in premarket trading based on wednesday’s closing price of 4288 the new annual dividend rate implies a dividend yield of 257 compared with the yield for the energy select sector spdr etf xle of 357 and the implied yield for the sp 500 spx of 168 murphy oil also reported fourthquarter adjusted earnings per share of 110 up from 40 cents a share in the