Cousins Properties Declares First Quarter Preferred and Common Stock Dividends.ATLANTA -- Cousins Properties Incorporated (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CUZ CUZ Because cuz Cousin CUZ Cuzco, Peru - Tte Velazco Astete (Airport Code) ) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend on its Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock Stock shares that have preferential rights to dividends or to amounts distributable on liquidation, or to both, ahead of common shareholders. Preferred stock is given preference over common stock. Holders of preferred stock receive dividends at a fixed annual rate. . The dividend of $0.484375 per share, or $1.9375 on an annualized annualized Of or relating to a variable that has been mathematically converted to a yearly rate. Inflation and interest rates are generally annualized since it is on this basis that these two variables are ordinarily stated and compared. basis, is payable February 15, 2007, to Series A preferred stockholders of record on February 1, 2007. The Board of Directors has also declared a regular quarterly cash dividend on its Series B Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock. The dividend of $0.46875 per share, or $1.875 on an annualized basis, is payable February 15, 2007, to Series B preferred stockholders of record on February 1, 2007. The Board of Directors has also declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.37 per share, or $1.48 on an annualized basis, payable February 22, 2007, to common stockholders of record on February 8, 2007. Cousins Properties Incorporated, headquartered in Atlanta, has extensive experience in the real estate industry including development, acquisition, financing, management and leasing. Cousins actively invests in office, multi-family, retail, industrial and land development projects. The Company's portfolio consists of interests in 7.3 million square feet of office space, 4.2 million square feet of retail space, 2 million square feet of industrial space, one multi-family residential Multi-family residential is a classification of housing where multiple separate housing units are contained within one building. The most common form is an apartment building. Many intentional communities incorporate multi-family residences, such as in cohousing projects. project and 23 single-family neighborhood developments, over 9,200 acres of strategically located land tracts for sale or future development, and significant land holdings for development of single-family residential communities. Cousins also provides leasing and management services to third-party investors; its client-services portfolio comprises 14.9 million square feet of office and retail space. Cousins is a fully integrated equity real estate investment trust (REIT REIT See: Real Estate Investment Trust REIT See real estate investment trust (REIT). ) that has been public since 1962 and trades on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. under the symbol "CUZ." For more information on the Company, please visit Cousins' Web site at www.cousinsproperties.com. |
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