Dividend declared by Tulsa’s Williams Cos.

Tulsa’s Williams company announced the approval of a 38 cent a share dividend for investors.

The board of directors said the $1.52 annualized dividend will be payable on March 25,  2019 to holders of record at the close of business on March 8, 2019.

The new amount is an 11.8 percent increase from Williams’ first-quarter 2018 quarterly dividend of $0.34 per share, paid in March 2018.

Williams has paid a common stock dividend every quarter since 1974.