Lockheed Martin to pay Q3 dividend of $2.60 per share in late September

Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT) announced that its board of directors has authorized a dividend of $2.60 a share for the third quarter.

The dividend is payable on Sept. 24, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on Sept. 1.

It’s the same amount that the defense contractor paid shareholders in the second quarter. At Lockheed’s current stock price, the dividend yields about 2.7 percent on an annual basis.

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) — a Bethesda, Maryland–based global security and aerospace company — has two plants in Central New York, in Salina and in Owego, as part of the firm’s rotary and mission systems (RMS) business area. 

 The company has about 114,000 workers worldwide.