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[28] [29] IMS Health shareholders received 0.384 shares of Quintiles common stock for each share of IMS Health common stock they held, leaving the split of ownership at 51.4% IMS and 48.6% Quintiles. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] The merger was completed in October and the resulting company was a $17.6 billion company called QuintilesIMS. [ 9 ]
In May 2016, the company announced it would merge with Quintiles [21] [22] IMS Health shareholders received 0.384 shares of Quintiles common stock for each share of IMS Health common stock they held, leaving the split of ownership at 51.4% IMS and 48.6% Quintiles.
The S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats is a stock market index composed of the companies in the S&P 500 index that have increased their dividends in each of the past 25 consecutive years. It was launched in May 2005.
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In 1994, he took Quintiles public through an IPO. [6] Quintiles is the "largest global provider of clinical trials and commercial marketing services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry". [5] In December 2015, Gillings retired as executive chairman of Quintiles, but remains a director. [6]
The S&P 500 is a stock market index maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices. It comprises 503 common stocks which are issued by 500 large-cap companies traded on the American stock exchanges (including the 30 companies that compose the Dow Jones Industrial Average). The index includes about 80 percent of the American market by capitalization.
A common stock dividend is the dividend paid to common stock owners from the profits of the company. Like other dividends, the payout is in the form of either cash or stock. The law may regulate the size of the common stock dividend particularly when the payout is a cash distribution tantamount to a liquidation. Such cash dividends may serve ...
Several stock indexes are based on high-yield stocks, such as Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index and FTSE High Dividend Yield Index. S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index contains companies that have raised their dividends. [1] Equity securities of companies in the utilities industry typically pay relatively high dividends. [2] [3]