Hillsboro-based electron microscope company FEI will begin paying an 8-cent quarterly dividend.
Hillsboro-based electron microscope company FEI will begin paying an 8-cent quarterly dividend.
Dividends had been essentially unknown among Oregon’s publicly traded tech companies, which harbored huge cash reserves during the long downturn that followed the dot-com bust.
Theoretically, a dividend returns money to shareholders when a company determines it’s generating more cash than it can usefully re-invest in its own business. Dividends can attract new classes of investors looking for steady returns on their money, and attract investment funds that target dividend stocks.
Read more at OregonLive.com.
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