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Chimera Investment Corporation (NYSE: CIM) is supposed to be a toxic mortgage winner in the land of Real Estate Investment Trusts. The REIT is also a serial capital raising entity, which keeps...
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It is hard to argue against the thought that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is one of the hottest growth stocks with great share performance and great brand loyalty. Its shares closed out 2009 at...
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) disclosed many things in the 2010 Annual Report filing last night. The most important was the warning about its gross margin coming in lower for the next quarter at about...
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International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) is at it again with returning capital. The company announced this morning that it declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.65 per...
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Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT) is going to retire more stock. The defense giant announced this morning that it has approved a new share repurchase program that will allow the repurchase of...
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Despite the rise of the stock market, many companies are continuing to repurchase their shares in the open market. Many investors prefer dividends over buybacks, but asking which is a better reward...
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Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) just joined the ranks of companies hiking their annualized dividend payments. This is the second annual hike in a row. The increase was bumped up by 20% to $0.15 from $0.125...
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Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) has issued its earnings. The lagging search and online content giant reported earnings of $0.17 EPS on $1.6 billion in revenues, but traffic acquisition costs were $476.8...
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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) had a bit of unusual debt rating coverage this morning after Fitch reiterated Wal-Mart’s “AA” rating and said its outlook is stable. The reason for the note...
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Conglomerates have enjoyed solid performance in 2010 and General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is set to report earnings on Friday morning. A market concern and a sector concern so far is that many...
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Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: (NASDAQ: DELL) is seeing some unusual activity ahead of its earnings report. Perhaps more interesting is what is causing the move. There are a couple of rumors that either Dell...
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Standard & Poor’s has released a very positive dividend development trend for 2010 that covers roughly 7,000 public shares that report dividend information. It is no small sum. The third...
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Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) traded higher in the after-hours session after the company gave an update to its buyback program. The company said that it would begin purchasing common stock during...
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Master limited partnerships are a unique investment class for the dividend-oriented and for the income-oriented investor alike. As they are MLP’s, they generally pass cash down to investors at...
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BP plc (BP) eliminated its dividend as the cost to the company of the Deepwater Horizon spill rose into the billions and billions of dollars. The UK-based firm says it has already spent $4 billion on...
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