Greater Baltimore's public companies have paid out $1.4B in dividends this year

Greater Baltimore’s public companies increased the amount they spent paying out dividends by 12.5 percent in 2018, following a national trend that has helped investors during a year when the stock market has gone negative. Aided by last year’s tax law that slashed the corporate income tax rate, the region’s biggest public companies have spent about $1.44 billion on dividends as of Sept. 30, according to federal filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. That’s up from $1.28 billion…

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