Dividends and Buybacks

Dividends and Buybacks Articles

Sometimes the financial markets try to use the sales pitch that cutting a dividend is a smart and bold move by a company. That can be true in certain dire situations but, investors mostly tend to...
While Barnes & Noble is a shadow of what was once among America's most powerful retailers, it still has one attraction to investors who own its shares. It has one of the highest yields of any...
CenturyLink is proof that investors should never just pile into a stock because it has a high dividend yield. It turns out that not all dividends are created equal.
Despite trouble with Ford sales in the United States and the world's largest car market, China, the company continues to pay one of the richest dividends of all American companies.
This weekend marked the “Stockpalooza” event for investors, which of course is the annual meeting for Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A). Warren Buffett and team had reported a dismal fourth...
With Berkshire Hathaway shares nearing new all-time highs again, it's hard to imagine that Warren Buffett would be a major buyer of the shares when there are hundreds of other companies he could...
With low volatility ratings, big dividends and some growth potential, these five stocks are ideal for investors looking for something they can add to their portfolios and forget about.
Here is a slate of 15 companies that most retirees likely would want to own in their portfolio now, including AT&T, Boeing, Pfizer and Walmart.
Kinder Morgan has released its first-quarter earnings for 2019, along with an update on its Permian Basin projects and news of a dividend hike that reached an enticing milestone.
Here are seven real estate investment trusts handily outyielding the 10-year Treasury that have solid businesses and implied upside to their price targets on average.
S&P's message and outlook would indicate that investors should be governing some of their great dividend growth expectations for the year ahead.
AmeriGas Partners is being acquired by UGI in what should be viewed as a consolidation rather than as a hostile merger.
With the tax code having been changed yet again in 2018, many investors who have started filing their taxes will be getting some surprises around how much they owe for taxes on capital gains and...
Stock buybacks have come under more scrutiny by the public and politicians in recent years, but companies still aggressively are buying back shares of their own stock.
The current interest rate scenario is awful for the future profitability of lenders. The carnage seen in the banks, particularly regional banks, was impossible to not notice in the past week.