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Several shares, starting from Mega-CAP to a small capitalization, have just announced a noticeable increase in their dividends. One of these names is one of the three largest actions in the software industry.

Another top-five players in the field of healthcare and supplies. Meanwhile, one of these shares has a market capitalization of less than $ 2 billion.

In addition, one very small pharmaceutical company announced its fourth consistent special dividend. Below are the details of these four companies.

SAP: Mega Cap Spact with dividend growth rates +8%

With a market capitalization of slightly less than 300 billion US dollars as of April 11, SAP (NYSE: SAP) occupies the first 30 largest state -owned companies in the world. On this date, this is also barely replaced by LVMH Moët Hennessy – Louis Vuitton, Société Européenne (OtcMkts: LVMuy), as the largest promotion in the European trading region.

SAP has created a huge name for himself as a leader in the enterprise resources planning industry. The company increases its dividends by slightly less than 7%, subject to the approval of shareholders at the annual general meeting of the company on May 13. The next 2.35 euros, dividends per share will be paid on May 16 reports on May 13. If approved, this will be the 29th of the last 35 years, when SAP has increased its annual dividend.

It is noteworthy that the company makes only one payment of dividends per year; This will be the only way to receive income from this action in 2025. Based on the closing price of the company on April 11, shares have the indicated dividend yield of just over 1% when considering this higher dividend. Since 2015, SAP has been increasing its regular dividends with a solid composite annual indicator of 8.2%.

Greenbrier: Little Dividic Coven

GreenBrier Companies (NYSE: GBX)-a company with a slight capitalization that increases its next dividend slightly less than 7%.

The company mainly participates in the railway industry, production wagons and the provision of maintenance and management services for railway cars.

This company is a meant in size compared to a company such as SAP, with a market capitalization of about 1.3 billion dollars. USA as of April 11th.

The next 0.32 US dollars per share are paid on May 13 to shareholders of the record as of April 22. This marks the 44th year in a row of increase in dividends. As of April 11, closed,

Greenbrier shares have the indicated dividend yield of 3.1%, which is much higher than 1.3% of the profitability of the S&P 500 index.

Alcon: adds sweets for shareholders with a 17% dividend

Alcon (NYSE: ALC) is the ninth largest state company in the health and supply industry.

Alcon is the largest eye care company in the world. Its products include everything from eye drops to contact lenses to mushrooms of surgical equipment.

Alcon is a Swiss company and proposed increasing their dividends to 0.28 Swiss francs per share. In the case of the approval of shareholders, this will be almost 17% more than in the previous year.

The new dividend will be paid on May 15 to the recording shareholders on May 14.

Alcon also makes only one dividend payment per year. As it is traded on the six Swiss exchange, the shares have the indicated dividend yield of slightly less than 0.4% as of the closure of April 11.

SIGA Technologies: 10% dividend profitability, as it declares special dividends

Siga Technologies (Nasdaq: Siga) is a commercial stage of a pharmaceutical company, which means that regulatory authorities have approved their drug for sale. Regulators in the United States, Canada, European Union, Great Britain and Japan approved their TPOXX drug. TPOXX was the first antivirus treatment approved by the US Products and Drug Control, to protect against smallpox. The company is also working to approve the drug in the United States for the treatment of MPOX.

The company has no regular dividends, but she simply announced that she would pay special dividends. Special dividends of the company in the amount of 0.60 US dollars per share will be paid on May 15 to record shareholders at the end of the business on April 29. This is the fourth year in a row when the company announced special dividends.

Despite a small market capitalization of $ 425 million, Siga has a large dividend yield. On the basis of this payment in the amount of 0.60 US dollars, shares have a tremendous dividend yield of 10% as of April 11.

Companies mentioned in this article:

Company	The current price	Changing the price	Dividend yield	P/e ratio.	Consensus -rating	Consensus target price
SAP (SAP)	$ 264.46	+1.0%	0.70%	92.02	Buy	$ 247.67
Greenbrier Companies (GBX)	$ 42.58	+3.9%	3.01%	7.42	Hold	$ 57.00
Alcon (Alc)	$ 92.83	+1.5%	0.28%	39.60	Moderate purchase	$ 106.22
Siga Technologies (Siga)	$ 5.99	-0.9%	N/a	5.00	N/a	N/a

About Leo Miller

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Leo Miller has been a writer for DividendStocks.com since 2024.

Passed the CFA II CFA exam

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Fundamental analysis, economics, industry and sector.

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Bachelor in the field of business administration, finance, Washington University

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Investment researcher in a registered investment consultant, analytics of Sungarden Investment Publishing