The Ring of Fire includes more than 450 volcanoes. It stretches for nearly 25,000 miles, running in the shape of a horseshoe (as opposed to an actual ring) from the southern tip of South America, along the west coast of North America, across the Bering Strait, down through Japan, and into New Zealand.
Well, when IBM raised its dividend to $1.10 from $0.95 a year ago, that was a dividend hike of almost 16%. When the dividend went to $0.95 from $0.85 in 2013, that was a hike of almost 12%. And in 2012, the dividend hike to $0.85 from $0.75 was a payout raise of 13%.
Let's briefly recap the figures. Ford declared a first-quarter dividend of $0.15 per share on the company's outstanding Class B and common stock, which is a 20% increase from the $0.125 quarterly dividend paid in 2014.or context, during that same time frame, Ford paid a total of $2.7 billion in dividends. Ford anticipates dumping only about $1 billion annually into its pension plan. Also, by the end of 2015, the Blue Oval anticipates its debt level will be slashed from $14.9 billion as of third-quarter 2014 to roughly $10 billion.