Merger savings will spur dividend

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RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORP. $61 is a buy. The company (New York symbol RTX; Conservative-Growth Payer Portfolio; Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 1.5 billion; Market cap: $91.5 billion; Dividend yield: 3.1%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.rtx.com) took its current form on April 3, 2020, with the merger of United Technologies Corp. (old symbol UTX) and Raytheon Co. (old symbol RTN). The combined firm is a leading maker of commercial aircraft equipment, electronic systems for military aircraft and radar systems, and guided missiles. Raytheon now pays investors a quarterly dividend of $0.475 a share. The annual rate of $1.90 yields 3.1%. That new payment is also up 2.7% from United Technologies’ previous quarterly dividend of $0.4625. Eliminating overlapping operations will let the company cut $1.0 billion from its annual costs over the next two years. That will help cover its total annual dividend payments of $2.9 billion. Raytheon Technologies is a buy. buy…