penny

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Separately, Medtronic on Wednesday also raised its quarterly dividend by a penny and said it has made strategic investments into two privately held companies focused on the development of intracardiac echocardiography, or ICE, catheter technologies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Nvidia has bought back $85 billion in shares in the past two years, and this past month it increased its quarterly dividend from one penny to an almost respectable 25 cents.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

Perhaps the company running the AI agent would have to pay TripAdvisor a penny or two every time that happens — and Mastercard could help facilitate those “microtransactions.”

From MarketWatch • May 25, 2026

Economists Ryan Kellogg and Rich Sweeney estimate that the law raises East Coast gasoline prices by about a penny and a half per gallon on average, costing drivers roughly $770 million a year.

From Salon • May 13, 2026

Fabyan presented them with endless work that had to be finished up, but he paid them not a penny more than usual.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield