DuPont declares 449th consecutive dividend; still 38 cents per share

WILMINGTON – DuPont declared a fourth quarter common stock dividend of 38 cents per share payable Dec. 14 to stockholders of record Nov. 15.

It is the 449th consecutive quarterly dividend since the company’s first dividend in the fourth quarter of 1904. The dividend remained at 38 cents per share, where it has been since it dipped from 49 cents a share in May 2015.

Regular quarterly dividends of $1.12-1/2 per share on the $4.50 series preferred stock and 87 1/2 cents per share on the $3.50 series preferred stock also were declared, both payable Jan. 25, to stockholders of record Jan. 10, 2017.