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Investing Topics: Dividend Cuts

Algonquin Re-Sets: What’s Next

By Roger S. Conrad on Jan. 12, 2023

Algonquin Power & Utilities (TSX: AQN, NYSE: AQN) has re-set its common stock dividend and will try again to win Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approval for the acquisition of Kentucky Power from American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP).

Dodging the Windstream Fallout: One Month Later

By Roger S. Conrad on Mar. 21, 2019

Get big or go home: That’s the communications sector’s reality.

Enbridge Eats Its Young

By Roger S. Conrad on Jun. 11, 2018
Enbridge Inc (TSX: ENB, NYSE: ENB) is buying the remaining common units of the two US MLPs it controls: Enbridge Energy Partners (NYSE: EEP) and Spectra Energy Partners (NYSE: SEP). It’s a good deal for the acquirer, which is buying these assets for barely 7 times cash flow. Absorbing the regulated natural gas and oil pipelines should dodge a possible Federal Energy Regulatory Commission-mandated rate cut. And management has affirmed three-year earnings guidance while promising faster growth after 2020.

Moving Closer to the Edge

By Roger S. Conrad on May. 6, 2018

SCANA Corp (NYSE: SCG) won’t declare its June dividend until “closer to record date”. That’s the closest Conrad’s Utility Investor coverage universe companies have come to a payout cut this earnings season. But several are definitely on the edge.

Earnings Season: There Will Be Blood

By Roger S. Conrad on Apr. 13, 2018
Earnings season is the time when companies share their quarterly results, good and bad. It’s also an opportunity for management teams to reset their strategy and guidance, including the dividend policy.

Danger: Falling Dividends

By Roger S. Conrad on Mar. 5, 2018
Two names on our Endangered Dividends List cut their payouts.

Earnings Season Likely Brings More Dividend Cuts

By Roger S. Conrad on Feb. 4, 2018
Earnings season is the time when management teams usually update guidance and announce dividend policies.

California Cuttin’ On Such a Winter’s Day

By Roger S. Conrad on Jan. 8, 2018
PG&E Corp (NYSE: PCG) suspended its dividend indefinitely because of uncertainty about the cause of the devastating wildfires that ravaged California last year—and the utility’s potential liability.

Falling Dividends and Failing Companies

By Roger S. Conrad on Dec. 10, 2017
What’s worse for a company’s shareholders than a dividend cut? Well, two names on our Endangered Dividends List face the very real threat of insolvency.

Three Cuts

By Roger S. Conrad on Nov. 14, 2017
Three members of the Endangered Dividends List have cut their payouts since the October 2017 issue.

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