{"id":3712,"date":"2019-02-07T07:56:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T13:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=3712"},"modified":"2019-02-07T07:56:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T13:56:37","slug":"skywest-rewards-investors-with-dividend-hike-new-buyback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=3712","title":{"rendered":"SkyWest Rewards Investors With Dividend Hike &#038; New Buyback"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a regulatory filing, <strong>SkyWest<\/strong>\n SKYW announced that its board of directors has approved a new share \nrepurchase program worth $250 million. Also, the regional carrier raised\n its quarterly dividend by 20%. Notably, this St. George, UT-based \ncarrier has been consistently rewarding its shareholders for quite some \ntime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Twin Shareholder-Friendly Moves<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This  Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) company hiked its quarterly dividend to 12  cents per share (annualized 48 per share), representing a 20%  improvement from the previous payout of 10 cents per share (annualized  40 cents per share). The new dividend, which has been approved by the  company\u2019s board of directors, will be paid on Apr 4, 2019 to its  stockholders of record as of Mar 29. The dividend yield based on the new  payout and the Feb 6 closing market price is approximately 0.9%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click the link below for the full story!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/skywest-rewards-investors-dividend-hike-121412826.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/skywest-rewards-investors-dividend-hike-121412826.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/skywest_e175s.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3714\" width=\"616\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/skywest_e175s.jpg 945w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/skywest_e175s-300x105.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/skywest_e175s-768x270.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a regulatory filing, SkyWest SKYW announced that its board of directors has approved a new share repurchase program worth $250 million. Also, the regional carrier raised its quarterly dividend by 20%. Notably, this St. George, UT-based carrier has been consistently rewarding its shareholders for quite some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,89,2203,398,868,1103],"tags":[539,118,847,2341,784,3169,3330,2084,840,745,553,3331,718,412,959,2083,2547,117,2773,659],"class_list":["post-3712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airline-news","category-aviation-news","category-finance-news","category-sports-news","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news","tag-air","tag-airlines","tag-alaska","tag-board","tag-corporation","tag-csx","tag-directors","tag-dividend","tag-george","tag-group","tag-hunt","tag-j-b","tag-new","tag-news","tag-quarterly","tag-repurchase","tag-share","tag-skywest","tag-st","tag-utah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3715,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3712\/revisions\/3715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}