Tag Archives: SBLK

Quality of Dividends, Part VII

By Tim | Published: July 21, 2009
I need to finish this series off before it starts looking like the Super Bowl listings. Only 7 more stocks to cover so I should be able to get them done in a couple of posts. Here is the next bunch: Star Bulk Carriers has been hard on dividend investors over the last year. After starting [...]
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Star Bulk Carriers restarts dividend

By Tim | Published: June 25, 2009
Star Bulk Carriers *. Star Bulk Carriers SBLK has declared a dividend of 5ยข per share to be paid to shareholders of record 7 July 2009. In the press release the company stated that they must receive approval from their lenders to continue dividend payments in the 3rd and 4th quarters of 2008. Star Bulk now gets [...]
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Star Bulk Carriers reports 1st quarter results

By Tim | Published: May 28, 2009
Star Bulk Carriers *. Linked above is the first quarter earnings report for Star Bulk Carriers SBLK. Star Bulk owns a dozen dry bulk vessels, 4 Capesize and the rest are Supramax. All of the ships are on time charter contracts until at least February 2010. Overall, Star Bulk had a pretty nice quarter. Their vessels have [...]
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Interesting results for shipping subsectors

By Tim | Published: May 22, 2009
Taking a break from the reviews of earnings reports I thought I would pass along some interesting results for stock returns I am tracking. I am following year-to-date returns for the publicly traded shipping stocks and also break them down by subsectors. Over the last month or so the different sectors have really started separating [...]
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Suspended dividend shipping company list

By Tim | Published: April 21, 2009
I have received an email requesting a list of shipping companies that have suspended or slashed their dividends. I have been tracking the shipping stocks I know of using Google Portfolios and have kept a sub-portfolio of the companies which have suspended dividends. This list is compiled from my own reading and research so any [...]
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The suspended dividend list

By Tim | Published: February 25, 2009
When I started putting together a list of shipping stocks for this blog I decided to have sub-lists related to the sub-sectors in the industry. Another thought was to separate out the dividend paying stocks, since that tends to be a major attraction in the shipping space. That genius idea led to the formation of [...]
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Star Bulk Shipping suspends dividend

By Tim | Published: February 12, 2009
Star Bulk Carriers *. Star Bulk Shipping, SBLK, has suspended their dividend in return for relaxed covenants on their debt. I have been working on the site and it is looking pretty good. My weekend is busy with other work, but I hope to have the site up live early next week.
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