Dividends and Buybacks

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Tim Cook, Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO, must think the hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation he has earned since taking the chief executive position is enough. He will forgo dividend...
The recent sell-off has been brutal to semiconductors and chip stocks of late.  To make matters worse, investing in technology and semiconductors can be brutal during the summer months.  Still,...
Retailers have fared better than many other sectors over the past year, with the majority of share prices having risen although price to book values remain negative. Thus, either the sector is...
Searching for a value play in conglomerate stocks may resemble looking for a needle in a haystack. The companies are so large and diversified that anything short of a major shake-up barely moves the...
Summer can often be an interesting time in the markets and so far the “Sell in May and go away!” them has worked.  What has also taken place is that many of these stocks have sold off to levels...
The world of master limited partnerships (MLPs) has brought great reward to investors in recent years. 24/7 Wall St. wants to know if the enthusiasm can stay in this sector this summer now that so...
Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE: RL) has what would appear to be good news in most headline watching: the high-end apparel maker is doubling its dividend.  Unfortunately this is getting lost in the...
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) told an investor’s conference this morning that the bank would suspend its share buyback program as the company pays down its losses on its...
Bonds of the Treasury variety may be the safe haven against a falling stock market.  They hardly pay anything in yield, but they haven’t yet faced a meltdown. The woes of Europe, the slowing BRIC...
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) closed up more than 3% at $19.00 on Wednesday against a 52-week trading range of $14.02 to $21.00.  The strong gain was on a sooner than expected approval to begin...
General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) is now going to be much further to being back on track in its GE Capital unit.  After having promised a return to dividend after proper approvals had been...
A stock market that sells off eight of nine days is not a good market.  Even the Facebook IPO is being viewed as a one-off item rather than a systemic item which will make the market stronger. ...
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) has done some severe damage to its image as the best risk manager of the large banks, and this damage may easily carry over into all of the ‘too big to...
Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE: NLY) is perhaps one of the most closely watched mortgage REITs of them all, in part because of the $16 billion size and in part because the team is deemed to be...
Blame whatever you want.  A weaker U.S. economy, a weakening and flailing Europe, a move to socialism in France and Greece, a weaker BRIC and emerging market story, commodity prices and on and...