{"id":13321,"date":"2010-12-10T12:11:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T16:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=13321"},"modified":"2010-12-10T12:11:47","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T16:11:47","slug":"dgs-pr-a-gets-bigger-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=13321","title":{"rendered":"DGS.PR.A Gets Bigger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dividend Growth Split Corp. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bromptongroup.com\/\/funds\/dgs\/pdf\/121010.pdf\">has announced<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>that it has completed its treasury offering of 1,100,000 class A shares and 1,100,000 preferred shares for aggregate gross proceeds of $21,230,000. Shares will continue to trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the existing symbols DGS (class A shares) and DGS.PR.A (preferred shares).<\/p>\n<p>Dividend Growth Split Corp. invests in a portfolio of common shares of high quality, large capitalization companies, which have among the highest dividend growth rates of those companies included in the S&#038;P\/TSX Composite Index.<br \/><b>&#8230;<\/b><br \/>The preferred shares were offered at a price of $10.00 per share. The investment objectives for the preferred shares are to provide their holders with fixed cumulative preferential quarterly cash distributions in the amount of $0.13125 per preferred share to yield 5.25% per annum on the original issue price, and to return the original issue price at the time of redemption on November 30, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The class A shares were offered at a price of $9.30 per share. The investment objectives for the class A shares are to provide their holders with regular monthly cash distributions targeted to be $0.10 per class A share, and to provide the opportunity for growth in net asset value per class A share.<\/p>\n<p>The offering was placed through a group of agents co-led by RBC Capital Markets and CIBC World Markets Inc., and included TD Securities Inc., BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc., National Bank Financial Inc., Scotia Capital Inc., GMP Securities L.P., HSBC Securities (Canada) Inc., Mackie Research Capital Corporation, Macquarie Private Wealth Inc., Manulife Securities Incorporated, Raymond James Ltd., Canaccord Genuity Corp., Dundee Securities Corporation, Desjardins Securities Inc., and Wellington West Capital Markets Inc<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>DGS.PR.A was last mentioned on PrefBlog when the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=13088\">offering was announced<\/a>. DGS.PR.A is not tracked by HIMIPref\u2122 as it is too small \u2026 but that excuse won\u2019t hold up for much longer if they keep up the pace of treasury offerings!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dividend Growth Split Corp. has announced: that it has completed its treasury offering of 1,100,000 class A shares and 1,100,000 preferred shares for aggregate gross proceeds of $21,230,000. Shares will continue to trade on the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-comments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}