Last month, Ford bolstered its quarterly dividend 12.5 percent, to 45 cents a share.

Chrysler will raise its dividend 60 percent and buy back $1 billion of stock.

The company raised its quarterly dividend 33 percent, to eight cents a share, on Dec. 18.

Earlier this year, the company, based in Toronto, raised its annual dividend 50 percent.

The company also increased its dividend 15 percent, from an annual $1.64 a share, to $1.88 a share.

The company also announced a 2-for-1 stock split, effective March 5, and plans to raise its dividend 8 percent.

The company said it was cutting its dividend 82 percent, trimming capital spending and selling assets.

The brokerage firm, coming off record earnings in 1992, raised its quarterly dividend 25 percent and declared a 3-for-2 stock split.

Disney also said its board raised the company's quarterly dividend 20 percent, to 21 cents a share from 17.5 cents.

The bank plans to raise its dividend 11 percent, and buy back up to 10 million shares of common stock.