A news release issued earlier today by Carthage-based Fortune 500 company Leggett & Platt says the company declared a dividend of 16 cents per share today, a 6.7 percent increase over last year. It will be paid April 14 to shareholders of record on March 15.
Leggett & Platt has increased dividends annually for 35 years.
According to the news release, Leggett's first quarter results will be released after the market closes Thursday, April 20, with a conference call at 8 a.m. Friday, April 21.
Good for them. Maybe they can afford to buy the Joplin Airport - I'd say $15 million plus the land value would be a very fair price. Since they are about the only people who need jet service for their private fleet, the Joplin airport with it's new $15m terminal, regular runway extensions, and expensive employees, it amounts to the taxpayers giving a profitable company welfare while cutting medical support for poor children.
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