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%.
The company was paying a quarterly dividend of 10 cents/share that was unchanged for about 6 years, until it started raising it to about 27 cents/share in 2014. Thus, if you held for 10 years, your dividend income would have increased by 170%, which is not bad at all.hat company didnât pay a dividend for the first 6 months after spin-off, and started at 7.50 cents/share every quarter in 1996. The dividend was held steady until 2012, after which it has been increasing to 36 cents/share every quarter.