Dividends and Buybacks
Dividends and Buybacks Articles
Everyone likes to see the Warren Buffett stock holdings, particularly when there are changes. He has a different timeframe than most investors for Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A)...
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J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is in the news today because CEO Jamie Dimon issued a scathing letter to shareholders that effectively is attacking the current political climate in Washington...
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Investors love dividends, and big stable utility stocks often have some of the highest dividends of any class of stocks. There has just been one problem… Dividends or not, utilities are sucking...
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Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE: HON) made our top day trader alerts this morning after the firm raised its guidance. The company reported that earnings will be on April 23, 2010, but it raised...
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We are getting more and more dividend hikes in 2010. Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) finally declared its first dividend. ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) is hiking its payout. Annaly Capital...
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Since the end of 2009, we have moved far beyond the waves of cost cuts and dividend cuts. Since then we have shown that many companies would actually raise their dividends or start new ones. It...
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Dividends reward shareholders through time. One-time dividends are often thought of as windfall events, although in today’s world it may be getting the dividend payments out to shareholders in...
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As we have been expecting for a month or more, General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is now acting as though it is probably closer to raising its dividend than what some were expecting even at the start of...
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PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) is the latest of the big companies to hike their dividend payouts this morning. We have not kept an exact tally, but this is getting close to 70 of the S&P 500...
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Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) is off its highs but still higher on the day after the company raised its dividend and announced a share buyback plan. The company’s board of directors...
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2010 is shaping up to be the year of the dividend. Stock buybacks are now becoming to be “Oh so 2007” for investors. In fact, many argue whether or not stock buyback plans do anything at all...
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2010 is becoming the year of the dividend… either raised dividends or it is new dividends. Over the weekend, we reviewed the restaurant and food service sector when we were evaluating...
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This is nearly funny, or at least ironic. I had been working on a piece to post at 5:00 PM addressing the steady chart meltdown happening at QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM). It seems as...
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McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) has enjoyed the status of being the greatest restaurant story in history. In our lifetime, or in any for that matter, the company grew from a start-up to a Dow Jones...
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Everyone, or at least most everyone, loves dividends. While some investors love share buybacks, dividends seem to be the new way we are seeing for companies to reward shareholders. The good news...
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