Dividends and Buybacks

Dividends and Buybacks Articles

The IPO market has not been so kind in 2010, and it has been far from predictable in general.  There is a stealth IPO this morning that is flying under the radar of most investors and it is a...
General Growth Properties, Inc. (NYSE: GGP) may soon need to change its name to General Break-Up.  The mall REIT operator Spinco, Inc. (“Spinco”), has filed a registration statement with the SEC...
Investors are looking for safe haven stocks that won’t get killed if we are into another bear market.  In this case, investors usually flock to defensive stock names during a bear market or when...
Earlier this year was the trend of hiking dividends, but now that so many companies have raised their quarterly payouts we are seeing the ‘other’ shareholder-friendly action taking place. ...
RadioShack Corporation (NYSE: RSH)  has had a buyout premium for some time as reports had been out that buyers from Best Buy Company Inc. (NYSE: BBY) to private equity groups were interested in the...
The technology stock event of the week is about to happen.  Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) has earnings today after the close, and every technology investor is going to be paying close attention...
Research In Motion Limited (NASDAQ: RIMM) is trying to do whatever it can to get its shares back up.  It compromised with the Saudis to get its BlackBerry workaround done to restart its service. ...
TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: AMTD) is seeing a gain today after it announced a buyback plan of up to 30 million shares of common stock.  When you consider its 576 million shares...
2010 has been called the year of dividend by us, but it seems that share buybacks in earnings season are still alive and well.  Of the buybacks we have tracked in various earnings releases or new...
Dividends and income from your belly… We have decided to start taking some high-yield reviews of key sectors this week now that earnings season is past the half-way mark.  Dividends in food via...
Investing in water is one of the trends that investors have gone after for years and years.  After all, the future of the world and life depend entirely upon the availability of fresh water. ...
2010 may be a directionless year for the stock markets so far, but shares of conglomerates are outperforming and more upside is expected.  The five largest conglomerates we follow are all higher for...
2009 was the year that dividends were cut or went on hold.  2010 is becoming the greatest year of increases and initiations of dividends that the markets have ever seen.  There are dividend hikes...
General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) could have picked a better time to release what we knew was coming, but at least it is finally here… GE’s board of directors just raised its quarterly...
The turnaround continues at Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX).  The coffee chain posted a 37% profit gain and it raised its dividend.  Third quarter same store sales rose 9% on record numbers.  It...