Atmos Energy Corporation (NYSE: ATO) said today that its Board of
Directors declared a quarterly dividend increase on the company’s common
stock to 34.5 cents a share. The indicated annual dividend is $1.38.
This is the 24th consecutive year that the company has increased its
dividend.
The dividend will be paid on December 12, 2011, to shareholders of
record on November 25, 2011. This is the company’s 112th
consecutive
quarterly dividend.
Atmos Energy Corporation, headquartered in Dallas, is currently the
country’s largest natural-gas-only distributor, serving over three
million natural gas distribution customers in more than 1,600
communities in 12 states from the Blue Ridge Mountains in the East to
the Rocky Mountains in the West. Atmos Energy also provides natural gas
marketing and procurement services to industrial, commercial and
municipal customers primarily in the Midwest and Southeast and manages
company-owned natural gas pipeline and storage assets, including one of
the largest intrastate natural gas pipeline systems in Texas. Atmos
Energy is a Fortune 500 company. For more information, visit www.atmosenergy.com.
