United-Guardian, Inc. (NASDAQ:UG)

United-Guardian, Inc. (NASDAQ:UG) ($9.50; $43.6M market cap) announced a $0.35 dividend to be paid to shareholders on record as of July 23, 2024. 

 “I am pleased to report that the company’s Board of Directors has decided to distribute a dividend of $0.35 per share to our stockholders. This one dividend is equal to the total of the last two dividends the company paid, and represents a 40% increase over the $0.25 per share dividend the company paid earlier this year, and a 250% increase over the $0.10 dividend paid last July. While we remain committed to using a portion of our earnings to support our growth initiatives, we also believe it is important to provide strong dividends to our stockholders when it is in the best interests of the company and its stockholders to do so.”

United-Guardian is a manufacturer of cosmetic ingredients, medical lubricants, sexual wellness ingredients and pharmaceuticals.

Ken Globus, President of United-Guardian, stated, "We are very happy to report that we had another excellent year in 2009, with both sales and earnings reaching new highs. We were especially pleased to be able to reach these record levels despite the difficult economic climate of this past year. The continuing success of our joint marketing efforts with our global marketing partners, as well as our efforts to keep both our raw material and administrative costs down, were some of the reasons for our very successful year. We have also seen significant increases in the growth of our medical products line over the past year, and expect to continue to see sales increases both in that line as well as our cosmetic ingredient line. Based on first quarter sales to date we are hopeful that this trend will continue as the global economy continues to improve and we continue to expand our line of products."

Source: GlobeNewswire (March 24, 2010)