CVS hikes Caremark bid again with bigger dividend
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CVS Corp.  on Thursday again sweetened its $23.9 billion takeover bid for Caremark Rx Inc.  with an increased dividend, calling the new proposal its "best and final" offer for the pharmacy-benefits manager.
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U.S. drugstore chain CVS Corp. , on Tuesday reported that sales at stores open at least a year grew 4.6 percent in December, as higher prescription demand offset lackluster general merchandise sales.
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The influential proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services reversed its stance yesterday and said that it would recommend that shareholders of Caremark Rx support a takeover proposal from the CVS drugstore chain.
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NEW YORK/CHICAGO  - CVS Corp.  sweetened its bid for Caremark Rx Inc.  on Tuesday by tripling a proposed special cash dividend for the pharmacy benefit manager's stockholders to $6 per share, after proxy advisory firms urged rejection of the previous offer.
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US stocks rose as Kmart Holding Corp.&#39;s $11 billion offer for Sears, Roebuck &amp; Co. lifted retailers and Hewlett-Packard Co.
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Caremark Rx Inc.  said on  Thursday its board supported a sweetened $23.5 billion takeover  bid from CVS Corp.  and rebuffed a hostile $26.9 billion  offer from rival Express Scripts Inc.
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LOS ANGELES: McDonald&#39;s Corp yesterday raised its annual dividend 38 per cent, a move the world&#39;s largest restaurant chain said is another sign of its revitalisation.
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WILMINGTON, Del. -- A Delaware judge yesterday refused to invalidate a $675 million breakup fee aimed at protecting the proposed acquisition of pharmacy benefits manager Caremark Rx Inc. by drugstore giant CVS Corp.
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CVS Corp.  on Thursday  again sweetened its $23.9 billion takeover bid for Caremark Rx  Inc.  with an increased dividend, calling the new  proposal its "best and final" offer for the pharmacy-benefits  manager.
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Express Scripts Inc.  sweetened its bid for Caremark Rx Inc.  on Wednesday after suffering two setbacks in its battle to wrest the rival pharmacy-benefit manager away from a $22.8 billion deal with CVS Corp.
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The cigarette and food producer raised its quarterly dividend by 6 cents to 86 cents a share, less than some analysts had expected.
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McDonald's Corp.  on Wednesday raised its annual dividend by 50 percent as part of a plan to return up to $17 billion to shareholders through 2009, sending its shares up more than 2 percent.
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McDonald&#39;s Corp. (MCD.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday raised its annual dividend 38 percent, a move the world&#39;s largest restaurant chain said is another sign of its revitalization.
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CVS Corp. boosted its bid yesterday for Caremark Rx Inc. by tripling to $6 per share the special cash dividend it plans to pay shareholders of the prescription drug benefits manager.
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CVS delivered what it hoped would be a knockout punch in the fight to acquire Caremark, raising its offer to $26 billion.
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A proposal by Medicare and Medicaid to expand coverage for implantable defibrillators boosted Guidant Corp.&#39;s stock price by 5 percent Wednesday as investors bet that the move would increase the company&#39;s sales.
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Stocks rose on Thursday after brokerages upgraded General Motors Corp.  and Merck & Co.  and McDonald's Corp.  boosted its annual dividend by 50 percent.