Walgreens Boots Alliance Declares Quarterly Dividend
January 30 2020 - 12:15PM
Business Wire
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA) today announced
that its board of directors has declared a quarterly dividend of
45.75 cents per share, unchanged from the previous quarter and an
increase of 4 percent from the year-ago quarter. The dividend is
payable March 12, 2020, to stockholders of record as of February
19, 2020.
Walgreens Boots Alliance and its predecessor company, Walgreen
Co., have paid a dividend in 349 straight quarters (more than 87
years) and have raised the dividend for 44 consecutive years.
Notes to Editors:
About Walgreens Boots Alliance
Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) is a global leader in
retail and wholesale pharmacy, touching millions of lives every day
through dispensing and distributing medicines, its convenient
retail locations, digital platforms and health and beauty products.
The company has more than 100 years of trusted health care heritage
and innovation in community pharmacy and pharmaceutical
wholesaling.
Including equity method investments, WBA has a presence in more
than 25 countries, employs more than 440,000 people and has more
than 18,750 stores.
WBA’s purpose is to help people across the world lead healthier
and happier lives. The company is proud of its contributions to
healthy communities, a healthy planet, an inclusive workplace and a
sustainable marketplace. The company’s businesses have been
recognized for their Corporate Social Responsibility. Walgreens was
named to FORTUNE* magazine’s 2019 Companies that Change the World
list and Boots UK was recognized as Responsible Business of the
Year 2019-2020 by Business in the Community.
WBA is included in FORTUNE’s 2020 list of the World’s Most
Admired Companies. This is the 27th consecutive year that WBA or
its predecessor company, Walgreen Co., has been named to the
list.
More company information is available at
www.walgreensbootsalliance.com.
*© 2019, Fortune Media IP Limited. Used under license.
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Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements: All
statements in this release that are not historical are
forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor
provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future
performance and involve risks, assumptions and uncertainties,
including those described in Item 1A (Risk Factors) of our Form
10-K for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2019, and in other
documents that Walgreens Boots Alliance files or furnishes with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. Should one or more of these
risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying
assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially.
These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are
made. Except to the extent required by law, Walgreens Boots
Alliance does not undertake, and expressly disclaims, any duty or
obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statement after
the date of this release, whether as a result of new information,
future events, changes in assumptions or otherwise.
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