On Thursday, Shares of Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE:RY), surged 0.98% to $66.67.
Royal Bank of Canada, declared April 2015 cash distributions for unitholders of RBC ETFs.
Unitholders of record on April 24, 2015 will receive distributions payable on April 30, 2015. The ex-dividend date is April 22, 2015.
Royal Bank of Canada, together with its auxiliaries, operates as a diversified financial service company worldwide. The company operates through five segments: Personal & Commercial Banking, Wealth Administration, Insurance, Investor & Treasury Services, and Capital Markets.
Shares of Cousins Properties Incorporated (NYSE:CUZ), gained 0.98% to $10.26, during the last trading session on Thursday.
Cousins Properties Incorporated, declared that its Board of Directors has declared a cash dividend of $0.08 per common share for the second quarter of 2015. The second quarter dividend will be payable May 28, 2015, to common stockholders of record on May 15, 2015. The $0.08 per share quarterly common dividend equates to $0.32 per share on an annualized basis.
Cousins Properties Incorporated, a real estate investment trust (REIT), owns, develops, and manages real estate portfolio, in addition to performs certain real estate-related services in the United States.
At the end of Thursday’s trade, Shares of Umpqua Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ:UMPQ), gained 0.97% to $17.67.
Umpqua Holdings Corporation, stated net earnings accessible to common shareholders of $47.0 million for the first quarter of 2015, as contrast to $52.4 million for the fourth quarter of 2014 and $18.5 million for the first quarter of 2014. Earnings per diluted common share were $0.21 for the first quarter of 2015, as contrast to $0.24 for the fourth quarter of 2014 and $0.16 for the first quarter of 2014.
Highlights:
- First quarter of 2015 operating earnings 1 of $56.4 million:
- Net interest income reduced by $11.0 million from the preceding quarter, driven by a $6.4 million decrease in interest income related to the Sterling credit discount accretion and two fewer days in the quarter;
- Provision for loan and lease losses raised by $8.5 million from the preceding quarter, driven by higher net charge-offs and stronger loan growth;
- Mortgage banking revenue raised by $11.7 million from the preceding quarter, driven by an improvement in gain on sale margin and higher volume, partially offset by a $1.5 million raise in the loss related to the change in fair value of the mortgage servicing rights (MSR);
- Non-interest expense (not taking into account merger-related expense) reduced by $1.7 million from the preceding quarter, driven by synergies from reduced store costs, lower services and marketing expenses, and a lower loss on other real estate owned, partially offset by higher variable mortgage banking expense primarily reflected in salaries and benefits;
- Continued growth in loans and deposits:
- Loans and leases (gross of sales) grew by $294.1 million, or 8% annualized, from the preceding quarter. This growth was partially offset by loan sales of $72.8 million, for net growth of $221.2 million, or 6% annualized;
- Deposits grew by $330.5 million, or 8% annualized, from the preceding quarter.
Umpqua Holdings Corporation, through its auxiliaries, engages in the commercial and retail banking, and retail brokerage businesses. It operates through two segments, Community Banking and Home Lending.
Finally, Xilinx Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX), ended its Thursday’s trading session with 0.98% gain, and closed at $44.33.
Xilinx, declared that it’s All Programmable devices are enabing Blackmagic Design to develop complete 4K camera systems on a chip. These devices are at the heart of Blackmagic’s URSA camera, which features a 4K Super 35 sensor with global shutter and a fold out 10″ monitor, and the Production Camera 4K which is the world’s smallest Ultra HD 4K cinema production camera.
At the core of these new cameras are Xilinx® Kintex®-7 devices, offering industry-leading transceivers to implement the new 12G-SDI connectivity standard for 10-Bit 4:2:2 4K video output. Blackmagic was able to combine the 12G-SDI connectivity with advanced video and image processing algorithms implemented in the FPGA fabric, putting together an entire camera system. The Kintex-7 FPGA is the first mid-range FPGA in the industry that can support 300MHz fabric speed and 12Gbps line rate tranceivers for 4K video system development.
Xilinx, Inc. designs and develops programmable devices and associated technologies worldwide. Its programmable devices comprise integrated circuits (ICs) in the form of programmable logic devices (PLDs), such as programmable system on chips, and three dimensional ICs; software design tools to program the PLDs; targeted reference designs; printed circuit boards; and intellectual property (IP), which comprises of Xilinx and various third-party verification and IP cores.
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