During Thursday’s current trade, Ventas, Inc. (NYSE:VTR)’s shares incline 1.38% to $65.30.
Ventas, Inc. (VTR) said that its Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.79 per share, payable in cash on June 30, 2015 to stockholders of record on June 5, 2015. The dividend is the second quarterly installment of the Company’s 2015 annual dividend.
Ventas, Inc. is a publicly owned real estate investment trust. The firm engages in investment, administration, financing, and leasing of properties in the healthcare industry. It invests in the real estate markets of the United States and Canada. The firm primarily invests in healthcare-related facilities counting hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, senior housing facilities, medical office buildings, and other healthcare related facilities.
Alcatel Lucent SA (ADR) (NYSE:ALU)‘s shares gain 0.54% to $3.75, during the current trading session Thursday’s, hitting its highest level.
Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) has learned that communications service providers have a tremendous opportunity to differentiate themselves in the marketplace with the use of innovative self-assist customer service tools.
A comprehensive study of smartphone users carried out recently by Alcatel-Lucent in Brazil, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States found that consumers prefer to avoid dealing with service provider assistdesks, and that there is growing evidence of a preference for using app-based self-service tools to resolve many common service issues.
The market research found that:
- More than a quarter of Japanese, UK and US consumers prefer not to call assistdesks.
- Almost half of Brazilians are more likely to ignore a problem or allow it to persist to avoid contacting a assistdesk.
- While customer service assistdesks remain the primary channel for resolving services issues, it is not the only channel and consumers are showing a growing interest in self-service tools.
- Japanese consumers are most willing to use self-assist tools such as apps, with up to half of UK consumers and as many as 42% of those in the US willing to sort out their own issues. In Brazil, 53-59% did report a willingness to use self-service tools, depending on the service.
- The functions consumers most want to see in service providers’ apps comprise billing information, troubleshooting capabilities, usage tracking and security alerts.
Alcatel-Lucent provides Internet protocol (IP) and cloud networking, and ultra- broadband access worldwide. The company’s Core Networking segment offers IP routing, carrier Ethernet, network functions virtualization, and software defined networking applications and infrastructure to meet the challenges of network traffic growth while supporting the delivery of cloud-enabled business, mobile, and residential services for service providers, mobile network operators, cable/multiple system operators, transportation, utilities, and large-scale enterprises.
In a mid-morning trade, Wisconsin Energy Corp (NYSE:WEC)‘s shares surge 1.57% to $47.08.
In preparation for the potential closing of the merger of Integrys Energy Group (TEG) with Wisconsin Energy Corporation (WEC) prior to the next Integrys Energy Group common stock dividend record date, and in accordance with the merger agreement, the Board of Directors of Integrys Energy Group recently declared a special pro rata dividend to ensure that its shareholders continue to receive their dividend at the current rate until the closing of the merger.
The Board of Directors declared a pro rata dividend of $0.007234 per share per day that will accrue from May 30, 2015 (the date right away following the prior Integrys Energy Group record date), until and counting the day prior to the effective day of the merger. This pro rata dividend, which is the daily equivalent of the current quarterly dividend rate of $0.68 per share, will be paid to Integrys Energy Group shareholders of record at the close of business on the day right away prior to the effective date of the merger. The dividend will be paid as soon as practicable following the completion of the merger. The effective date of the merger is not presently known, but is predictable to occur by the end of this summer.
Wisconsin Energy Corporation, through its auxiliaries, generates and distributes electric energy. The company operates in two segments, Utility Energy and Non-Utility Energy. It generates electricity from coal, natural gas, oil, hydroelectric, wind, and biomass. The company provides electric utility services to customers in the paper, foundry, food products, and machinery production industries, in addition to the retail chains.
ITT Educational Services, Inc. (NYSE:ESI), during its Thursday’s current trading session 0.82% gain and closed at $4.92.
ITT Educational Services, Inc. ( ESI), a leading provider of technology-oriented postsecondary degree programs, declared that it has filed its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2015 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company has now filed all periodic SEC reports required to be filed by it at this time.
The company also stated that, based on the current status of its efforts to complete the 2014 compliance audits of its institutions’ administration of the Title IV programs in which they take part, the company believes that the 2014 compliance audits should be accomplished prior to the U.S. Department of Education’s June 30, 2015 deadline.
ITT Educational Services, Inc. provides postsecondary degree programs in the United States. It offers master, bachelor, and associate degree programs to about 53,000 students; and short-term information technology and business learning solutions for career advancers and other professionals.
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