Dividends and Buybacks
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Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) is back to being the worst of the worst of the Dow Jones Industrial Average components. Shares broke under $10.00 on Friday for the first time since May of...
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The world of Mortgage REITs offers massive yields for income investors. There is a big caveat here. It offers massive yields, until it doesn’t… then you don’t want to be around this...
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The market is soft, the economy hit a soft patch, and now woes are building about Italy beyond Greece, while China and India keep applying the brakes on growth. This is taking the wind out of many...
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Is California’s debt rating safe? Or is in the same boat as Greece? That depends upon whom you ask. Meredith Whitney would probably say it is not safe. Standard & Poor’s, however, is...
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The mania of stock splits is not quite as fast and furious as it was earlier in June on the split calendar, but we are still seeing some key splits on the docket which are set to take effect. The...
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If you have seen one trend that has lasted in 2011 it is that companies are hiking their dividend payouts for their shareholders. Many classic investment models are based almost entirely around...
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As part of last week’s story on stock buybacks in the solar PV industry, we opined that a consolidation in the solar industry is looking to take shape. Acquisitions and mergers have already...
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Now that the first six months of 2011 is in the books, we thought a quick glance at some of the period’s top performers would be illuminating. We ran a number of screens at Morningstar and came up...
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The merger and consolidation phase in solar may be getting underway. Solar PV maker JA Solar Holdings, Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ: JASO) has reached an agreement to purchase privately held Silver Age...
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It was not that long ago that Apollo Group Inc. (NASDAQ: APOL) was under serious pressure from Washington D.C. along with other for-profit education stocks. Now the regulations have come down and...
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PIMCO is about to compete as a real estate investment trust in the world of mortgage REITs. It only makes sense considering that PIMCO is in the group of fund managers that get first look on any...
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There are several ways in which companies can return money to shareholders, but the two most common methods of returning cash to shareholders are dividends and stock buybacks. Dividends are rarely...
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Water may be the source of life, but it is also perhaps one of the most misunderstood and most “under-invested” themes for those investors who want income and growth year after year throughout...
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Whether or not initial public offerings are performing properly in the after-market is one thing, but the game that investors are trying to win now is in securing pre-IPO shares of companies which...
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One theory of economics says that any market can return to a point where it has been in the past. The Great Recession was, by some measures as bad as the Great Depression. Unemployment was 3.6% in...
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