This Company Just Doubled Its Dividend. Its Stock Is Soaring, Too.

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Camping World Holdings banal was up astir 6% successful aftermarket trading Monday pursuing the company’s announcement that it volition treble its dividend.

The recreational conveyance dealer’s banal was astatine $39.45 astatine astir 5:27 p.m. Monday, up 5.9% versus its earlier closing terms of $37.26.

Camping World Holdings (ticker: CWH) said successful a merchandise Monday aft the marketplace closed that the regular quarterly dividend volition summation to 50 cents a stock from 25 cents. On an annualized basis, it volition beryllium $2 a share, up from $1.

The company, headquartered successful Lincolnshire, Ill., operates a nationalist web of RV dealerships and work centers.

The stock, which was precocious yielding 1.1%, has returned astir 45% this twelvemonth done Monday’s close, dividends included, up of the S&P 500’s 25% result.

As evidenced by the stock’s performance, investors person shown assurance that the institution tin get done the pandemic successful comparatively amended signifier than different travel-related companies similar cruise lines, adjacent with unpredictable factors similar the Delta variant surfacing.

Write to Lawrence C. Strauss astatine lawrence.strauss@barrons.com

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