Dividends and Buybacks

Dividends and Buybacks Articles

Tiffany & Co. (NYSE: TIF) has been an amazing stock.  Despite the rise in precious metals, the company has so far not been impacted by rising prices when it comes to sell-through rates.  It was...
It was just on May 4, 2011 that ACE Limited (NYSE: ACE) released its quarterly earnings and when it outlined its costs pertaining to that catastrophe in Japan.  It appears that despite some large...
Investors love dividends, particularly from companies which are raising dividends or which have a history of raising dividends.  There is a new diversified sample dividend portfolio for investors...
Inflation hurts most investors and it really hurts most on fixed budgets.  It can absolutely annihilate retirees and those who are just about to retire.  Another consideration is that as investors...
Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) announced its current dividend policy, most of which we already knew.  The turnaround bank has declared a whole $0.01 per quarter dividend on its common stock.  The...
The two telecom giants of AT&T, Inc. (NYSE: T) and Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) are both Dow Jones Industrial Average members.  They are both considered to be very defensive stocks in...
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) was already one of the highest dividend yields in the technology sector.  Intel just again raised its dividend for the second time over the last six months.  This...
It is almost every day that we take a look at the market capitalization rates of some of America’s largest public companies in our own Real-Time 500 reading.  The recession killed many stocks and...
Who hasn’t had a off-site storage unit at some point in their lives?  These are all over the country and they are plentiful.  Some are high-end and some look like trailer parks.  Still, these...
Master Limited Partnerships have been under pressure of late, in part because of oil.  The major concern for this sector is not as much oil and energy prices, but Washington D.C. policymakers and...
The dividend hikes continue… We have seen continued dividend hikes from large companies.  Those hiking dividends for just this trading session are Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE: CAH), CBS...
It would be easy to worry about the share prices of utility companies after the recession and after the most recent rise in commodity prices, and that brings up the great dividend worry.  Utilities...
It was just last week that ClickSoftware Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CKSW) managed to beat earnings, but what the company also did was begin a dividend policy.  The company has a mere $301 million...
Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE: VLO) has just recently announced its routine $0.05 dividend per common share per quarter.  This $0.20 comes to a yield of only about 0.7% for investors.  Oil investors...
It would be easy to say that inflationary pressures are impacting consumer staples and consumer discretionary stocks.  This sector remains one of our favorites for investors who want defensive...