| New England Bancshares, Inc. Announces Cash Dividend and Meta Financial Group, Inc.® Reports Results for First Quarter Fiscal 2012 |
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ENFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- New England Bancshares, Inc. (Nasdaq GM: NEBS) announced today that the Company(TM)s Board of Directors declared a cash dividend for the quarter ended December 31, 2011 of $0.03 per share. The cash dividend will be payable on March 13, 2012 to stockholders of record on February 27, 2012.New England Bancshares, Inc. is headquartered in Enfield, Connecticut, and operates New England Bank with fifteen banking centers servicing the communities of Bristol, Cheshire, East Windsor, Ellington, Enfield, Manchester, Plymouth, Southington, Suffield, Wallingford and Windsor Locks. For more information regarding New England Bank(TM)s products and services, please visit www.nebankct.com.Thanks to continued declines in home prices and rock-bottom mortgage rates, buying a home is now more affordable …Quotes delayed, except where indicated otherwise. [Read the full article] NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- First Niagara's first Annual Survey of Southwestern New England Business Leaders released today shows more leaders are positive than negative about their local state economies based on the assessment of current economic conditions and their expectations for 2012.A strong plurality of these private business executives are saying that they expect to increase their workforce sizes, and nearly half expect increasing revenues while almost 4 in 10 expect profitability to increase in 2012.By at least a three-to-one ratio, private business leaders in Southwestern New England plan to increase (28%) their workforces in 2012 compared to 9% who expect to decrease. Another 63% expect workforce sizes to stay the same."These business leaders are telling us that Southwestern New England is open for business," said David Ring, New England regional president for First Niagara Financial Group Inc. [Read the full article] Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, in trading on Tuesday, shares of Home Federal Bancorp Inc (NASD: HOME) were yielding above the 2% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $0.22), with the stock changing hands as low as $10.90 on the day. Dividends are particularly important for investors to consider, because historically speaking dividends have provided a considerable share of the stock market’s total return. To illustrate, suppose for example you purchased shares of the iShares Russell 3000 ETF (IWV) back on 5/31/2000 " you would have paid $78.27 per share. Fast forward to 5/31/2011 and each share was worth $80.78 on that date, a mere $2.51 or 3.2% increase over eleven years. But now consider that you collected a whopping $9.69 per share in dividends over the same period, increasing your return to 20.27%. [Read the full article] 
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