Investors in Halliburton Company will get a 4.5 cent dividend for the 2021 first quarter.
The board of directors took the action to declare the dividend on the company’s common stock and it will be payable on March 24, 2021 to shareholders of record at the close of business March 3.
The company’s annual meeting of shareholders will take place on May 19, 2021. The record date for determination of shareholders entitled to vote at the meeting is March 22, 2021.
Halliburton is coming off a fourth-quarter where it suffered a net loss of $235 million or 27 cents a diluted share. It was a big increase from the $17 million third quarter 2020 net loss or 2 cents a diluted share.
Halliburton’s total revenue in the fourth quarter of 2020 was $3.2 billion, a 9% increase from revenue of $3.0 billion in the third quarter of 2020.