Dividends and Buybacks

Dividends and Buybacks Articles

Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO) has made good on a dividend hike we have been expecting.  The domestic tobacco giant has now increased its regular dividend by almost 8% to $0.41 per common share per...
Shares in home improvement store Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) were trading higher by around 3% in the pre-market this morning on news that the company will initiate a $5 billion stock...
Investors now have yet one more option to choose from when it comes to investing in mortgage REITs.  Van Eck Global has now launched the Market Vectors Mortgage REIT Income ETF (NYSE: MORT) as a...
It was just last week that we had identified literally 25 big share buyback announcements from companies in the preceding two weeks.  These companies were actually buying back the stock as well...
O’Donnell Strategic Industrial REIT, Inc. is going to be the next public warehouse REIT.  The company has filed its S-11 and the SEC declared it effective as of August 15, 2011. The public...
Investors couldn’t have missed seeing the recent waves of new corporate share buyback plans. What they may have not noticed as clearly is the increasing trend in “legal insider trading” —...
It is no secret that the market volatility has many investors rattled.  What is very counter-intuitive is that many companies are continuing with most or all of their investor friendly plans...
What on earth are investors supposed to do when T-Bonds offer almost zero income?  Interest rates are now so low that the price-risk in long-term Treasury bonds is too great.  Ben Bernanke has now...
Although stock buybacks have never been among our most preferred methods of returning capital to investors, stock repurchase plans can indicate to investors that a company’s management believes the...
The S&P downgrade of the United States may have the investment community in a fuss, but many investors saw this coming long before.  To say that investors will not see a knee-jerk reaction in...
When you see a ten-day sell-off and a capstone panic day with what is a 300-point sell-off in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the first reaction is that no one wants anything and that every stock...
Verizon Wireless is owned 55% by Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and 45% by UK-based Vodafone (NYSE: VOD). Yesterday, the cellular service provider said it would pay a dividend of $10 billion next year. The size...
If you have been a reader of 24/7 Wall St. for long, you know that we appreciate companies that pay dividends just about as much the investors who buy companies because of their great dividends. ...
As the US staggers toward a conclusion to the seemingly endless debate over the debt ceiling, many investors might be thinking of parking some assets in a nice safe place. One place to look for those...
We have a new mortgage Real estate investment trust coming on the market.  Apollo Residential Mortgage, Inc. (NYSE: AMTG) is coming public after pricing its initial public offering of 10,000,000...