First Trust NASDAQ Rising Dividend Achievers (NASDAQ:RDVY) Increases Dividend to $0.25 Per Share

First Trust NASDAQ Rising Dividend Achievers (NASDAQ:RDVY) declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, March 26th, NASDAQ Dividends reports. Investors of record on Thursday, March 27th will be given a dividend of 0.2544 per share on Monday, March 31st. This represents a $1.02 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.72%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, March 27th. This is a 33.1% increase from First Trust NASDAQ Rising Dividend Achievers’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.19.

First Trust NASDAQ Rising Dividend Achievers Trading Down 0.7 %

NASDAQ RDVY opened at $59.23 on Friday. The firm has a market cap of $13.47 billion, a PE ratio of 14.89 and a beta of 1.14. First Trust NASDAQ Rising Dividend Achievers has a 1-year low of $52.78 and a 1-year high of $64.63. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $61.08 and a 200-day moving average of $60.63.

First Trust NASDAQ Rising Dividend Achievers Company Profile

The First Trust Rising Dividend Achievers ETF (RDVY) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the NASDAQ US Rising Dividend Achievers index. The fund tracks an index of 50 large-cap stocks with rising, high-quality dividends. RDVY was launched on Jan 6, 2014 and is managed by First Trust.