Dividends and Buybacks
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Do you have to worry when biotech giants decide to spend their hard-earned cash repurchasing their own stock rather than using the cash to go purchase new pipelines? That is what we’d like to ask...
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It was early in October before earnings season kicked off into full thrust when we first reviewed many large or actively traded stocks which had not participated in the stock market rally of 2009. ...
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You might think that companies tend to repurchase fewer and fewer shares in their share buyback plans when shares rise and rise. When you compare the moves from the March 9 close, the price moves...
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Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK) barely has its Schering-Plough deal behind it. And today came the announcement of its dividend rate, but more importantly came word of a large share repurchase...
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Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) is the latest large American company to announce it would buyback many more of its shares. This has become popular once again among the cash rich in the Fortune 500....
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This was an important week for investment guru and billionaire watchers to see which gurus were holding which stocks. The full public equity holdings of Warren Buffett via Berkshire Hathaway Inc....
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Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is defying the old status quo of big technology companies which do not pay what most would consider real dividends. Today’s quarterly dividend hike to $0.1575...
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You have already seen the Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) buyout of 3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS). But this week before that deal was announced we covered how mergers in the technology sector have...
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The recovery is on and mergers are happening, yet the technology sector has been slow to make deals. Despite some deals already having taken place from the technology giants and that $260 billion...
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Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF) surged over 7% to a yearly high of $37.80 after the company was upgraded from “neutral” to “buy” by anlysts at Goldman Sachs. DISH Network Corp....
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We have two deals which have been called off in the land of mixed use properties as a secondary by Thomas Properties Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TPGI) and one was the IPO which was supposed to price from...
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Late Friday night, after a really poor market day, Hyatt Hotels issued an amended S-1 for its planned initial public offering. Because of last week’s market volatility, we are getting mixed...
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The five hundred largest non-financial companies in the U.S. hold $994 billion in cash and short term investments, up about 8 percent from last year, according to an exclusive study conducted by...
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Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) is reporting some stellar earnings considering the environment and this appears to be the 6th or 7th beat against estimates. The credit card processing giant posted $0.74...
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Sometimes special dividends make sense, and sometimes they do not. Mosaic Co. (NYSE: MOS) traded lower most of the trading day after the fertilizer and potash giant declared a special cash dividend...
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