Atmos Energy Increases Quarterly Dividend

Atmos Energy Corporation ATO said today that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend increase on the company's common stock to 39 cents per share. The indicated annual dividend is $1.56, which represents an $0.08 increase over the Fiscal 2014 annual dividend of $1.48. This is the 27^th consecutive year that the company has increased its dividend.

The dividend will be paid on December 8, 2014, to shareholders of record on November 24, 2014. This is the company's 124^th consecutive quarterly dividend.

Atmos Energy Corporation, headquartered in Dallas, is one of the country's largest natural-gas-only distributors, serving over three million natural gas distribution customers in over 1,400 communities in eight states from the Blue Ridge Mountains in the East to the Rocky Mountains in the West. Atmos Energy also manages company-owned natural gas pipeline and storage assets, including one of the largest intrastate natural gas pipeline systems in Texas and provides natural gas marketing and procurement services to industrial, commercial and municipal customers primarily in the Midwest and Southeast. For more information, visit www.atmosenergy.com.