Investing for income through dividends and distributions

The Board of Directors of Nucor Corporation (NYSE: NUE) today announced the increase of its regular quarterly cash dividend on Nucor’s common stock to $0.56 per share. This cash dividend is payable on February 11, 2026 to stockholders of record on December 31, 2025 and is Nucor’s 211th consecutive quarterly cash dividend. Nucor has increased its…

Blue Owl Capital Corporation (OBDC) is merging with Blue Owl Capital Corporation II. The two funds already hold almost the same loans, so this merger is mainly about size and efficiency, not about changing what OBDC invests in. Here are some key terms. The merger brings about 1.7 billion dollars of assets from OBDC II…

Kimberly-Clark has agreed to acquire Kenvue in a transaction valued at about 48.7 billion dollars in a mix of cash and stock. Each Kenvue shareholder will receive 3.50 dollars in cash and 0.14625 Kimberly-Clark shares, resulting in Kimberly-Clark investors owning about 54 percent of the combined company once the deal closes. The companies expect the…

Main Street Capital Corporation (NYSE: MAIN) (“Main Street”) is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors declared regular monthly cash dividends of $0.26 per share for each of January, February and March 2026. These monthly dividends, which will be payable pursuant to the table below, total $0.78 per share for the first quarter of…

Our operations generated solid cash flows during the first nine months of 2025. We paid dividends of $77.7 million, repurchased common stock for $77.2 million, and funded capital expenditures of $49.6 million. Additionally, we reduced our long-term debt by $188.2 million (Net Debt by $213.2 million) during the first nine months of 2025, driving our…