Polaris Industries Inc. (NYSE:PII) raises dividend 10%, increases share buyback by 4M shares; DuPont (NYSE:DD), Perceptron, Inc. (Nasdaq:PRCP)

Polaris Industries Inc. (NYSE:PII) raises dividend 10%, increases share buyback by 4M shares. Polaris Industries announced that its Board of Directors approved a 10% increase in the regular quarterly cash dividend, raising the payout to 53c per share. This increase represents the 20th consecutive year of Polaris increasing its dividend effective with the 2015 first quarter dividend. The first quarter dividend will be payable on March 16 to shareholders of record at the close of business on March 2. PII traded in the green and closed at $148.01 for the day. The stock saw a change of $1.38(0.94%) with a volume of 1,116,737 shares. PII has a market cap of $9.85B.

 

DuPont (NYSE:DD) plans to cut bonuses, delay raises for year, WSJ reports. DuPont will cut bonus payouts and delay raises for its employees for the year as the company deals with slow growth and activist investor Trian Fund Management, owned by Nelson Peltz, pressing Dupont to split itself up, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing an unnamed knowledgeable source. E. I. DD closed for the day at $72.71 with a change of $1.00. Trailing 12 month’s profit margin for DD is 10.06% and for the same period, its operating margin is 16.27%.

 

Perceptron, Inc. (Nasdaq:PRCP) acquires two European metrology companies for $15.9M. Perceptron Inc. announced that it has reached agreement to acquire two European metrology companies. Coord3 Industries s.r.l., a leading mid-market designer and manufacturer of a full range of high-quality and high-performance Coordinate Measurement Machines, or CMM, based in Turin, Italy and Next Metrology Software s.r.o., or NMS, a technical leader in CMM operating software and the developer of TouchDMIS, based in Prague, Czech Republic. In Nasdaq, PRCP traded with a change of $0.08 and closed for the day at $10.74 with a volume of 4,940 shares. PRCP‘s revenue in last one year has been $58.46M, return on assets 0.91% and return on equities 1.64%.