Nike and 5 More Companies That Raised Their Stock Dividends This Week

Nike,

Agilent Technologies

and

Motorola Solutions

were among the large U.S. companies that announced dividend increases this week.

Nike

(ticker:

NKE

) declared a quarterly disbursement of 34 cents a share, up by 11.5% from 30.5 cents. On an annualized basis, the dividend increases to $1.36 a share.