Dividends and Buybacks

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Water is the source of life.  Many futurists believe it is the largest concern of the world in the years ahead.  The water sector is also not the easiest to invest in.  Many of the pure-play...
Over $2.5 billion served… that is the new annualized dividend payment from McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE: MCD).  The Golden Arches just announced that its board of directors declared a $0.61 per...
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has struggled with a stock price which is stuck where it was five years ago. The world’s largest software company’s revenue in its last fiscal year is not much different...
Texas Instruments saw its shares rise in the after-hours on Thursday on word of a dividend hike and a monster share buyback plan. Frankly this may be the wrong path for the time being for Texas...
You probably already know now that Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) has promised to pay a dividend of 1.5 to 2% initially for 2011. After a multi-year period of dead performance, this was a...
Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) has finally buckled to pressure to return capital to shareholders.  While we did not get the promise of a one-time massive dividend we outlined as a possibility,...
Jamie Dimon, CEO and Chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), is presenting to investors on Tuesday at the Barclays Global Financial Services Conference.  Dimon is usually the ax to watch...
Cisco Systems  Inc.(NASDAQ: CSCO) is on the verge of its analyst meeting taking place today.  The company is out of excuses and the time to pay a dividend is now.  Considering a dead decade for...
Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE: PM) has just followed its former parent Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO) with a dividend hike.  Philip Morris International’s recent dividend hike was by more...
Agriculture, fertilizer, and potash companies are not exactly known for the highest dividend yields in the world.  Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. (NYSE: POT) announced today that it has...
If corporations have high credit ratings, there is an opportunity to borrow for rates that have not been seen in years (or ever).  August saw key bond issuances at extremely low rates from Johnson...
Buybacks may not be considered the best return of capital by many investors and market pundits, but they are M&A-alternatives for management of companies.  The amount of share buybacks announced...
$100 billion… That is roughly the combined tally of August share buyback announcements and merger announcements.  This may not be a record, but it has to be one of the most active months of...
Altria Group, Inc. (NYSE: MO) has hiked its dividend.  While we saw a dividend hike earlier in the year, we had a few questions about its dividend coverage.  It seems those questions are answered...
What happens when Dow Jones Industrial Average components have dividend yields on the common stocks that are above the yield of the 10-year Treasury Note or even the 30-Year Treasury Long Bond?  In...