On Tuesday, Shares of Alamos Gold Inc. (NYSE:AGI), gained 4.09% to $7.13.
Alamos Gold, declared that the Company’s Board of Directors has declared a semi-annual dividend of US$0.03 per common share and introduced a Dividend Reinvestment and Share Purchase Plan.
Semi-Annual Dividend
This represents the Company’s 11th successive semi-annual dividend and once again demonstrates its commitment to returning value to shareholders. Counting the current dividend, the Company has returned a total of $106 million to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases over the past five years. This dividend represents a decrease from previous levels, a reflection of both the sharp decline in the price of gold and our transition to a growth phase as a Company. We possess one of the strongest development pipelines of our peer group and expect to ramp up spending over the next few years as we advance our growth projects towards production.
The dividend is payable on May 29, 2015 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on May 15, 2015. This dividend qualifies as an “eligible dividend” for Canadian income tax purposes. For shareholders that elect to take part in the DRIP as outlined below, common shares granted as part of the May 29, 2015 dividend will be issued from treasury at a 5% discount to the prevailing market price.
Alamos Gold Inc., a gold mining company, engages in the exploration, mine development, and mining and extraction of precious metals, primarily gold. The company’s primary asset is the Mulatos mine covering about 28,773 hectares of concessions in the state of Sonora, Mexico. It also owns the Agi Dagi, Kirazli, and Çamyurt gold development projects in the Biga district, Turkey; the Esperanza Gold Project in Morelos State, Mexico; and the Quartz Mountain Property in Oregon, the United States. Alamos Gold Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
Shares of ServiceNow, Inc. (NYSE:NOW), gained 3.83% to $77.50, during its last trading session.
ServiceNow, launched the ServiceNow Store for both paid and free applications and integrations developed on the ServiceNow platform. At launch, there are more than 80 certified applications and integrations accessible for any ServiceNow customer to download and start using right away.
Today’s IT organizations face constant pressure to provide new applications to meet ever-changing business needs. They must balance the faster time-to-value from applications they can buy with the costs of developing and implementing custom apps.
For customers already using ServiceNow solutions, they can have the best of both worlds. The store will enable IT organizations be more agile, flexible and responsive to the needs of the business.
The store features value-added business applications created by technology partners, solution providers, systems integrators and service providers. Long-time ServiceNow partners Cloud Sherpas, Fruition Partners and others have developed some of the initial applications counting:
- Cloud Sherpas Legal Services App – Transitions legal workflows off of email to raise visibility with reporting and tracking without dramatically affecting the day-to-day end user experience. The Cloud Sherpas Legal Services App supplements ServiceNow’s Legal Service Administration Solution with advanced functionality to address unique legal workflows such as research requests, document processing and resource tracking.
- Cloud Sherpas Security Incident Response App – Effectively monitors and detects security events and routes execution of proper responses. The Cloud Sherpas Security Incident Response app for ServiceNow provides a secure, private work queue for resolving incidents in addition to a work stream to enable monitoring teams to parse through alert inputs (e.g. email, Twitter feeds) quickly. These efficiency gains assist security teams be more effective in providing reactive support, expand proactive monitoring of security threats and report on security responsiveness for audit purposes.
- Fruition Partners LIFT Intake – Provides a single place for all an organization’s calls, emails, and self-service submissions for assist to be recorded and triaged before becoming incidents, requests or cases, eliminating duplicates and allowing consistent 1-step categorization across business units such as IT, HR, facilities and legal. For the first time, customers can access LIFT Intake as a stand-alone feature, accessing a key component of the larger Fruition Partners LIFT Product Suite, enabling customers to deliver services throughout their organizations.
- Fruition Partners Telebridge IT Alert Administration – Generates voice call alerts for an organization’s IT team via Twilio software, which enables phones, VoIP, and messaging to be embedded into web, desktop, and mobile software. Telebridge accepts incident assignments over the phone to improve major incident handling with ServiceNow-controlled conference bridges. Telebridge cuts long hold times for end users and automates more IT functions by replacing service desk voicemail with speech-to-ticket creation.
- MobiChord Mobility Administration Solution – Empowers organizations to make mobility administration a true service administration function. The new mobility suite automates mobile device and wireless expense administration, driving down support manpower and wireless costs. By leveraging ServiceNow, MobiChord automates interactions with mobility administration teams and reduces the hands-on support time, freeing the IT team to do more proactive work. It also lets end-users manage many of their needs – all within corporate policy – through a self-service portal.
ServiceNow, Inc. provides cloud-based solutions that define, structure, manage, and automate services to enterprise operations in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and other countries.
At the end of Tuesday’s trade, Shares of Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (NYSE:ASX), gained 3.77% to $7.15.
On April 8, Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, declared its unaudited merged net revenues for March and 1st quarter of 2015.
Starting from Feb. 1, 2010, Universal Scientific Industrial Co., Ltd.’s merged revenues were merged into ASE Inc.’s merged revenues.
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. provides semiconductor packaging and testing services in the United States, Taiwan, Asia, Europe, and internationally. It operates through Packaging, Testing, and Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) segments.
Finally, Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (NYSE:PEI), ended its last trade with 3.65% gain, and closed at $22.16.
Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment, and The Macerich Company (MAC) declared that they have reached a tentative contract with the City of Philadelphia on a redevelopment and re-branding of the historic Gallery shopping mall and transit center in the heart of Center City.
If approved by Philadelphia City Council, the Philadelphia School Reform Commission and the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, the Gallery will be rebranded as the Fashion Outlets of Philadelphia at Market East following a two-year renovation that will open the site to Market Street and completely reimagine the shopping, dining and entertainment experience for tourists, commuters, office workers, and residents throughout Philadelphia and the region. The project will offer a fusion of outlet retail taking the form of luxury and moderate brands, traditional mall retail, popular flagship retail, artisanal food experiences and entertainment offerings.
The redevelopment benefits significantly from the participation of project partner Macerich, one of the nation’s top mall owners, operators and developers, with extensive experience in adding value to well-situated assets in densely populated, urban environments. Macerich’s market-right development and leasing – exemplified by projects such as the award-winning Fashion Outlets of Chicago that features exceptional brands in an upscale environment just minutes from O’Hare International Airport – succeed for retailers, shoppers and communities.
Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (PREIT) is a publicly owned equity real estate investment trust. The firm manages owns, manages, develops, attains, and leases mall and power and strip centers primarily in the Eastern United States.
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