Comments on: The Duke of Dividends! http://dividendmoney.com/the-duke-of-dividends/ Personal Finance With A Cash Flow Focus Sun, 13 May 2012 02:19:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Matt http://dividendmoney.com/the-duke-of-dividends/comment-page-1/#comment-5205 Matt Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:36:27 +0000 http://dividendmoney.com/the-duke-of-dividends/#comment-5205 While technically the DUK dividend is lower than it was in previous years, it was not actually a cut, but was the impact of spinning-off Spectra Energy. If DUK shareholders held on to the shares of SE, then their combined dividend is equal to what they had previously been receiving. This is the same for MO and their spin-off of KFT as well. While technically the DUK dividend is lower than it was in previous years, it was not actually a cut, but was the impact of spinning-off Spectra Energy. If DUK shareholders held on to the shares of SE, then their combined dividend is equal to what they had previously been receiving.

This is the same for MO and their spin-off of KFT as well.

]]> By: James Slagowski http://dividendmoney.com/the-duke-of-dividends/comment-page-1/#comment-5035 James Slagowski Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:47:00 +0000 http://dividendmoney.com/the-duke-of-dividends/#comment-5035 I like your comments on Duke Energy, but I have to disagree with one of your comments about a dividend cut. You said, "However, we must look a little closer at this figure as we like to see a track record of growing dividends and Duke Energy has had a recent cut in its dividend." In the past 2 years, the only dividend cut was when Duke spun off it's gas assets into Spectra Energy. So when this happened they gave each shareholder Spectra Stock and between both stocks, the dividend equaled what had been the Duke dividend before the spin-off. I used to own Duke, but sold it off in a portfolio reorganization. Do your due diligence and look at the entire picture of what happened to cause the dividend decrease. I like your comments on Duke Energy, but I have to disagree with one of your comments about a dividend cut. You said, “However, we must look a little closer at this figure as we like to see a track record of growing dividends and Duke Energy has had a recent cut in its dividend.” In the past 2 years, the only dividend cut was when Duke spun off it’s gas assets into Spectra Energy. So when this happened they gave each shareholder Spectra Stock and between both stocks, the dividend equaled what had been the Duke dividend before the spin-off. I used to own Duke, but sold it off in a portfolio reorganization. Do your due diligence and look at the entire picture of what happened to cause the dividend decrease.

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