On Friday, First Niagara Financial Group Inc. (NASDAQ:FNFG)’s shares inclined 1.25% to $9.72.
First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. (FNFG) declared that the Company’s Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of eight cents ($0.08) per share on outstanding FNFG common stock.
The Company’s Board of Directors also declared a quarterly preferred stock dividend of $0.539063 per share on its fixed-to-floating rate perpetual non-cumulative preferred stock, Series B.
Both dividends will be payable on August 17, 2015 to shareholders of record on August 5, 2015.
First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for First Niagara Bank, N.A. that provides retail and commercial banking, and other financial services to individuals, families, and businesses. The company’s deposit products comprise savings and money market, and certificate of deposit accounts, in addition to municipal deposits. Its loan portfolio comprise commercial business loans; commercial real estate and multi-family lending products; residential real estate lending products; home equity lending products; indirect automobile lending products; credit cards; and other consumer loans, such as personal secured and unsecured loans, and overdraft lines of credit.
Crown Castle International Corp (NYSE:CCI)’s shares gained 1.44% to $86.07.
Crown Castle International Corp. (CCI) declared that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.82 per common share. The quarterly dividend will be payable on September 30, 2015 to common stockholders of record at the close of business on September 18, 2015. Future dividends are subject to the approval of the Company’s Board of Directors.
Crown Castle International Corp., together with its auxiliaries, owns, operates, and leases shared wireless infrastructure in the United States and Australia. The company provides towers and other structures, such as rooftops; and distributed antenna systems, a type of small cell network (small cells). It provides access, counting space or capacity to its towers, small cells, and third party land interests via long-term contracts in various forms, counting license, sublease, and lease agreements.
At the end of Friday’s trade, Fortune Brands Home & Security Inc (NYSE:FBHS)‘s shares surged 1.03% to $50.90.
Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc. (FBHS), an industry-leading home and security products company, declared second quarter 2015 results from ongoing operations and updated its 2015 annual outlook for earnings per share.
Second Quarter 2015
For the second quarter of 2015, sales were $1.17 billion, an enhance of 13 percent over the second quarter of 2014. Earnings per share were $0.48, contrast to $0.51 in the preceding-year quarter. EPS before charges/gains were $0.59, contrast to $0.51 the same quarter last year. Operating income was $128.2 million, contrast to $125.5 million in the preceding-year quarter. Operating income before charges/gains was $150.5 million, contrast to $125.6 million the same quarter last year.
For each segment in the second quarter of 2015, contrast to the preceding-year quarter:
- Cabinet sales raised 18 percent to the preceding year. Not taking into account the impact of the Norcraft acquisition, sales raised 8 percent, with the dealer channel growing 10 percent and in-stock cabinet and vanities increasing high teens.
- Plumbing sales raised 5 percent, with growth across the U.S. wholesale and retail channels, offset somewhat by the impact of Canadian currency and slower China sales.
- Door sales were up 6 percent with growth in both the wholesale and retail channels.
- Security sales raised 28 percent driven by the SentrySafe acquisition.
Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc. provides home and security products for use in residential home repair, remodeling, new construction, security applications, and storage. It operates in four segments: Cabinets, Plumbing, Doors, and Security. The Cabinets segment manufactures custom, semi-custom, and stock cabinetry, in addition to vanities for the kitchen, bath, and other parts of the home under various brand names, counting Aristokraft, Kitchen Craft, Kitchen Classics, Omega, Schrock, Homecrest, Decorá, Diamond, St. Paul, Kemper, Thomasville, and Martha Stewart Living in North America.
Himax Technologies, Inc. (ADR) (NASDAQ:HIMX), ended its Friday’s trading session with 0.44% gain, and closed at $6.81.
Himax Technologies, Inc. (HIMX) declares an industry-leading, ultra-low power consumption eDP 1.4 timing controller (“TCON”) that supports ultra-high resolution panels for tablets, notebooks and monitors. Himax is one of very few pioneers who have enabled the next generation development of ultra-high resolution panels with a total solution that successfully addresses the power consumption issue. Leading LCD panel makers and system OEMs in Korea, China, Taiwan, and Japan are actively adopting this new technology, and Himax is planning to enter mass production in the fourth quarter of 2015.
Himax’s eDP 1.4 TCON is unique and very competitive in that it pairs with nVIDIA’s G-SYNC(TM) and AMD’s FreeSync(TM) technologies for graphic cards to process 3D graphics on ultra-high resolution displays, eliminating screen tearing and minimizing stutter and input latency. For gamers or anyone looking for superior visuals on ultra-high resolution devices, eDP 1.4 TCON is key to achieve such performance. The eDP 1.4 TCON supports up to the latest G-SYNC(TM) version 1.0, a development beyond industry pace.
Himax Technologies, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, provides display imaging processing technologies to consumer electronics worldwide. The company operates through Driver IC and Non-Driver Products segments. It offers display driver integrated circuits (ICs) and timing controllers used in televisions (TVs), laptops, monitors, mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, car navigation, and other consumer electronics devices.
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