{"id":8867,"date":"2018-05-10T08:54:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T12:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=e3a56dc8e95d0c5257000fa9a79b2f42"},"modified":"2018-05-10T08:54:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T12:54:22","slug":"canadian-pacific-railway-raising-quarterly-dividend-by-15-5-per-cent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/10\/canadian-pacific-railway-raising-quarterly-dividend-by-15-5-per-cent\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Pacific Railway raising quarterly dividend by 15.5 per cent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CALGARY &#8212; Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. is raising its quarterly dividend by 15.5 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>The railway says it will now make a regular payment to shareholders of 65 cents per share, up from 56.25 cents per share.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the company&#8217;s closing share price of $238.76 on Wednesday it will have an annual yield of about 1.09 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian Pacific also said that it bought back about 4.4 million of its shares at a weighted average price of $214.31 in May.<\/p>\n<p>By buying back its stock, a company spreads its profits over fewer shares.<\/p>\n<p>That increases its return on equity and earnings per share, two key ratios used to determine a company&#8217;s financial health and investment rating.<\/p>\n<p>Companies in this story: (TSX:CP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALGARY &mdash; Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. is raising its quarterly dividend by 15.5 per cent. The railway says it will now make a regular payment to shareholders of 65 cents per share, up from 56.25 cents per share. Based on the company&rsquo;s closing share price of $238.76 on Wednesday it will have an annual yield [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8872,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867\/revisions\/8872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}