Market Extra: Stock dividends, fueled by ‘heady effect’ of tax bill, seen hitting record in second quarter [MarketWatch]
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Stock dividends, fueled by ‘heady effect’ of tax bill, seen hitting record in second quarter Shareholders are feeling the love from U.S. corporations. According to IHS Markit, companies in the S&P 500 SPX, +1.02% will pay out a total of $115 billion in dividends in the second quarter. This would represent a record, as well as growth of 2.3% from the first quarter. The increase in the quarter, which the firm wrote was “a consequence of the heady effect of tax reform legislation and propitious macro outlook,” was merely the latest in a lengthy streak of sequential quarterly growth. IHS expects this trend to continue through the end of 2018, and sees full-year dividend payouts totaling $465 billion, or 9% above 2017’s total, the fastest pace of annual growth in three years. Because of the tax bill, IHS wrote, it had increased its full-year target by 1.75 percentage points. According to Ben Carlson, director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management, dividends gre
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