On Thursday, Kimberly Clark Corp (NYSE:KMB)’s shares inclined 0.81% to $105.64.
The board of directors of Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB) has declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.88 per share. The dividend is payable on Oct. 2, 2015, to stockholders of record on Sept. 4, 2015.
2015 marks the 43rd successive year that Kimberly-Clark has raised its dividend and the 81st straight year it has paid a dividend to shareholders.
Kimberly-Clark Corporation, together with its auxiliaries, manufactures and markets personal care, consumer tissue, and K-C professional products worldwide. It operates through three segments: Personal Care, Consumer Tissue, and K-C Professional. The Personal Care segment offers disposable diapers, training and youth pants, swimpants, baby wipes, feminine and incontinence care products, and other related products under the Huggies, Pull-Ups, Little Swimmers, GoodNites, DryNites, Kotex, U by Kotex, Intimus, Depend, Plenitud, Poise, and other brands.
CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME)’s shares gained 1.35% to $93.81.
CME Group Inc., the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, recently declared a third-quarter 2015 dividend of $0.50 per share, payable September 25, 2015, to shareholders of record as of September 10, 2015.
CME Group Inc., through its auxiliaries, operates contract markets for the trading of futures and options on futures contracts worldwide. It offers a range of products for trading and/or clearing across various asset classes, based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, and metals. The products comprise exchange-traded; and privately negotiated futures and options contracts and swaps.
At the end of Thursday’s trade, USG Corporation (NYSE:USG)‘s shares surged 0.49% to $30.53.
USG Corporation (USG), a leading building products company, stated results for the second quarter of 2015.
USG generated $79 million in net income and $0.54 per diluted share in the second quarter of 2015. On an adjusted basis, net income of $78 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.53 raised over 80 percent. Adjusted results exclude results from Gypsum Transportation Limited (GTL), a shipping operation that the Company has exited, comprised of in the Gypsum segment. A full reconciliation of GAAP to adjusted metrics is set forth on a plan attached hereto.
The corporation’s Gypsum segment generated $98 million of operating profit in the second quarter of 2015. On an adjusted basis, operating profit in the Gypsum segment improved by $20 million, led by the US Gypsum business which realized 310 basis points of improved operating margins. Wallboard offered $14 million of improved operating profit and the surfaces and substrates businesses contributed $9 million in total incremental profit. Favorable pricing and improved volumes coupled with lower natural gas costs and operational efficiencies drove the margin expansion in the US Gypsum business.
USG Corporation, through its auxiliaries, operates as a manufacturer and distributor of building materials worldwide. Its Gypsum segment provides gypsum and related products that are used to construct walls, ceilings, roofs, and floors of residential, commercial, and institutional buildings, in addition to in various industrial applications.
Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (NYSE:WSM), ended its Thursday’s trading session with 0.79% gain, and closed at $76.29.
Brooklyn-based home furnishing retailer West Elm, a member of the Williams-Sonoma, Inc. portfolio of brands (WSM), recently declared it will open its first shop-in-shop in John Lewis, the UK’s largest department store retailer. The shop-in-shop will open on September 3rd in John Lewis’s newly renovated flagship store on Oxford Street in London following the launch of a branded shop online at johnlewis.com. The West Elm shop-in-shop is part of John Lewis’s multi-million pound home department makeover and represents the first time West Elm products will be accessible outside of the brand’s own stores and websites.
Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is a specialty retailer of high-quality products for the home. These products, representing eight distinct merchandise strategies – Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, West Elm, PBteen, Williams-Sonoma Home, Rejuvenation, and Mark and Graham – are marketed through e-commerce websites, direct mail catalogs and 603 stores. Williams-Sonoma, Inc. presently operates in the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom, offers international shipping to customers worldwide, and has unassociated franchisees that operate stores in the Middle East and the Philippines.
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