{"id":382081,"date":"2020-11-16T13:03:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T18:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/?p=382081"},"modified":"2020-11-16T13:03:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T18:03:23","slug":"american-equity-declares-annual-cash-dividend-on-common-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/american-equity-declares-annual-cash-dividend-on-common-stock\/","title":{"rendered":"American Equity Declares Annual Cash Dividend on Common Stock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <!--.bwalignc { text-align: center; list-style-position: inside }\n.bwuline { text-decoration: underline }body {font:normal small Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000;background-color:#fff;padding:24px;margin:0;} a img {border:0;} h3 {font-size:medium;color:#000;margin:0 0 1em 0; text-align:center;}-->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"bwalignc\"><b><span class=\"bwuline\">American Equity Declares Annual Cash Dividend on Common Stock<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEST DES MOINES, Iowa&#8211;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\">BUSINESS WIRE<\/a>)&#8211;<br \/>\nAmerican Equity Investment Life Holding Company (NYSE: AEL) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared an annual cash dividend of $0.32 per share to owners of its common stock. This is a 6% increase from the $0.30 per share annual dividend declared on November 22, 2019. This marks the twenty second consecutive year a cash dividend has been declared and the seventeenth year in a row that the Company has increased its cash dividend.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe dividend will be payable on December 10, 2020 to shareholders of record as of November 25, 2020. There are approximately 91 million shares of common stock outstanding as of today.\n<\/p>\n<p><b>ABOUT AMERICAN EQUITY<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\nAmerican Equity Investment Life Holding Company, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, is a leading issuer of fixed index annuities through independent agents, banks and broker-dealers. American Equity Investment Life Holding Company, a New York Stock Exchange listed company (NYSE: AEL), is headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa. For more information, please visit <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.american-equity.com&amp;esheet=52328637&amp;newsitemid=20201116005914&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=www.american-equity.com&amp;index=1&amp;md5=0af468198b480000e7e56375b1f020f4\">www.american-equity.com<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=bwnews&amp;sty=20201116005914r1&amp;sid=flmnd&amp;distro=nx&amp;lang=en\" style=\"width:0;height:0\" \/><span class=\"bwct31415\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"mmgallerylink\"><span id=\"mmgallerylink-phrase\">View source version on businesswire.com: <\/span><span id=\"mmgallerylink-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20201116005914\/en\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20201116005914\/en\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\nSteven Schwartz | Head of Investor Relations<br \/>\n<br \/>American Equity Investment Life Holding Company\u00ae<br \/>\n<br \/>515-273-3763 | <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"mailto:sschwartz@american-equity.com\">sschwartz@american-equity.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>KEYWORDS:<\/b> Iowa United States North America<\/p>\n<p><b>INDUSTRY KEYWORDS:<\/b> Banking Professional Services Insurance Finance<\/p>\n<p><b>MEDIA:<\/b><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"3\">\n<tr>\n<td><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><b>Logo<\/b><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20201116005914\/en\/643514\/3\/AE_HOLDING_Full_size_logo_-_Blue.jpg\" alt=\"Logo\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Equity Declares Annual Cash Dividend on Common Stock WEST DES MOINES, Iowa&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211; American Equity Investment Life Holding Company (NYSE: AEL) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared an annual cash dividend of $0.32 per share to owners of its common stock. This is a 6% increase from the $0.30 per share annual dividend declared on November 22, 2019. This marks the twenty second consecutive year a cash dividend has been declared and the seventeenth year in a row that the Company has increased its cash dividend. The dividend will be payable on December 10, 2020 to shareholders of record as of November 25, 2020. There are approximately 91 million shares of common stock outstanding as of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/american-equity-declares-annual-cash-dividend-on-common-stock\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;American Equity Declares Annual Cash Dividend on Common Stock&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>American Equity Declares Annual Cash Dividend on Common Stock - Market Newsdesk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/american-equity-declares-annual-cash-dividend-on-common-stock\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"American Equity Declares Annual Cash Dividend on Common Stock - Market Newsdesk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"American Equity Declares Annual Cash Dividend on Common Stock WEST DES MOINES, Iowa&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211; American Equity Investment Life Holding Company (NYSE: AEL) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared an annual cash dividend of $0.32 per share to owners of its common stock. 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