Con Ed Maintains Dividend
Consolidated Edison is hewing to its long-standing tradition of distributing a shareholder payout. The company has declared a quarterly common stock dividend of $0.615 per share, to be paid on December 15 to shareholders of record as of November 13. That amount matches each of the firm's three preceding distributions, the most recent of which was paid in September. Prior to that, Con Edison was less generous by $0.01, handing out $0.605 per share.
The firm has been a regular and steady dividend payer for decades. It has increased its disbursement for 39 consecutive years.
The just-declared dividend annualizes to $2.46 per share. That yields 4.3% at Con Ed's most recent closing stock price of $56.86.
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