Ship Finance International Limited decreases dividend

Ship Finance Limited (SFL) declared second quarter dividend of $0.35 per share, the Company's 54^th consecutive quarterly dividend. This is a disapointting decrease from previous dividend which was $0.45 per share.

Bank of Nova Scotia increases dividend

Today the Board of Directors of Scotiabank announced a quarterly dividend increase of from CA$ 0.76 to CA$ 0.79 per share that’s payable October 27, 2017 to holders of record October 03, 2017. This represents a 3.95 % increase from prior dividend. It should be noted that this is the second dividend increase in the current calendar year as it was also raises by CA$ 0.02 in February 2017. So the increase in this calendar year is CA$ 0.05 or 6.76% from the last dividend paid in October 2016. With current price CA$ 77.20 (yesterday's close), this raise brings their dividend yield to 4.09 %.

Prospect Capital decreases dividend

Prospect is declaring distributions as follows:

• $0.06 per share for September 2017 to September 29, 2017 record holders with October 19, 2017 payment date; and
• $0.06 per share for October 2017 to October 31, 2017 record holders with November 22, 2017 payment date.

These distributions mark Prospect’s 110th and 111th consecutive cash distributions to shareholders.

Based on the declarations above, Prospect’s closing stock price of $7.13 at August 25, 2017 delivers to shareholders a 10.1% dividend yield.

This is a 28% decrease, disappointing but it was expected

Marine Harvest ASA increases dividend

Marine Harvest ASA (MHG.OL) declared dividend NOK 3.20 for Q3. Dividend for previous quarter was NOK 3.00 so this is a 6.67% increase in quarterly dividend.

Since I own only 20 shares of MHG.OL this increases my 12 month forward dividends by so little that I do not even want to count it :) Well, MHG.OL position was just started and will be increased during coming months/years

Royal Bank of Canada dividend increased

Today the Board of Directors of Royal Bank of Canada announced a quarterly dividend increase of from CA$ 0.87 to CA$ 0.91 per share that’s payable November 24, 2017 to holders of record October 26, 2017. This represents a 9.64 % increase over the fourth quarter 2016 dividend of CA$ 0.83 per share and a 4.60 % increase over for the second quarter 2017 of CA$ 0.87 per share. With current price CA$ 92.01 (yesterday's close), this raise brings their dividend yield to 3.96%.

New purchase : Marine Harvest ASA

New position started in portfolio. Marine Harvest ASA (MHG.OL). Purchased 20 shares of MHG.OL for 151.00 NOK per share.

Marine Harvest ASA is a Norway-based company engaged in the production and marketing of seafood. The Company operates within three segments, namely Feed, Farming, and Sales and Marketing. The Feed segment is responsible for production of fish feed. The Farming segment manages the Company's farming activities in Norway, Scotland, Canada, Chile, Ireland and the Faroe Islands. The Sales segment comprises the global sales organization.

MHG.OL pays dividend quarterly with 3-6-9-11 schedule and my starting yield on cost is around 7.6%

Awilco Drilling dividend for Q2 / 2017

Awilco Drilling declares dividend of $0.20 per share for Q2. Dividend ex-date is 22.august and paydate around 22. september 2017. Dividend remains unchanged from Q1 which is good.