Las Vegas Sands Raises Dividend - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Las Vegas Sands Corp. (LVS) announced that its next recurring quarterly dividend of $0.72 per common share will be paid on March 31, 2016, to shareholders of record on March 22, 2016. The dividend represents an increase of 10.8% compared to the dividend paid in the first quarter of 2015.

Additionally, Las Vegas Sands reported that, since the inception of the company's share repurchase program in June 2013, it has returned $2.44 billion to shareholders through the repurchase of 35.4 million shares, including $60.0 million of common stock (1.3 million shares at a weighted average price of $44.55) during the quarter ended December 31, 2015.