Dividends and Buybacks
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Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) is performing rather well when you consider that the bank’s dividend is not likely to rise as fast as some of the more healthy banks. The banking giant is...
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24/7 Wall Street is constantly on the lookout for dividend gains for investors. While this is not due to any breaking news, there was a secondary offering this morning that we saw and it highlights...
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) took a page from the dividend competition playbook when it raised its payout. The stock market has not been a huge helping hand for the shares so far. Still, we...
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Investors love huge biotech opportunities for growth. Investors also love to get paid in the form of dividends. Unfortunately, the terms “dividend” and “biotech” never match up. While...
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Gold has seen a major run-up even before the Middle East and North Africa strife. This has lent support to many gold mining stocks and gold royalty players as well along with the growing number of...
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B) has released its 2010 annual report. While there are plenty of Buffett-isms in there for some mild financial entertainment, there are some clues that investors...
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Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE: RF) is one of the many widely held companies which filed its annual report under form 10-K with the SEC. Investors rarely look through these annual reports due...
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Many shareholders argue that share repurchase and stock buyback plans are generally a waste of shareholder capital aimed solely as a short-term share price targeting mechanism. Many would prefer to...
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Kohl’s Corp. (NYSE: KSS) has buckled to the pressure to pay a dividend. At the end of January, we highlighted eight non-dividend payers that need to pay dividends. Kohl’s was among those. The...
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Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) recently joined the waves and waves of public companies which filed their 10-K annual reports with the SEC. We often dig through these and other reports to find tidbits...
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Most investors today believe that none of the banks are paying high-yielding dividends any longer. While it is true that J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is going to reinstate its dividend...
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Investors love dividends and they love technology stocks. By and large it is hard to find very high dividend payout in technology. There are several chip stocks which pay over 3% in current...
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J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is holding its Investor Day presentation this morning. While everyone wants to hear about the continued wave of lower write-downs and charge-offs, the big...
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The ongoing fight for how to run The St. Joe Company (NYSE: JOE) is heating up and taking a strange turn. Bruce Berkowitz, whose Fairholme Capital is a near-30% owner of St. Joe, has now resigned...
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We have many big events to watch for in the coming week at American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE: AWK), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T), Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ),...
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