Dividends and Buybacks
Dividends and Buybacks Articles
Dividends already have been raised by many key companies, and now the wave of corporate stock buybacks is increasing despite the stock market being within 5% to 10% of recent all-time highs.
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Here is what should stand out about this dividend hike: Altria has now raised its dividend 52 times in the past 49 years.
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Best Buy reported fourth-quarter and full-year results this morning that topped consensus estimates. Then the company added a dividend hike to make the stock even more attractive.
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Telecom firm Frontier Communications suspended its $0.60 per share quarterly dividend when it reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2017 results Tuesday evening. Investors and analysts wasted no time...
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These five companies could be great total return stories in 2018 that also offer investors a degree of safety in what has become a very volatile stock market.
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These three companies not only look able to maintain their large payouts but they also have growth prospects. They look to be solid 2018 plays for income seekers.
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These were 13 stock buyback and dividend hike announcements from the week of February 16 that were simply too large to be ignored.
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These four stocks are rated Buy and all have yields of 5% or more. They could be great total return candidates for the rest of 2018 and beyond.
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AbbVie is joining the companies raising their shareholder rewards. The pharmaceutical products maker has announced how it will further commit to previously forecast moves.
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Phillips 66 has agreed to repurchase 35 million shares of its own common stock from a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway.
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While not the most exciting companies in the world, these five Dividend Aristocrats will certainly hold up much better than others should the market take a deep dive.
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There is a point that the yield on Treasury bonds will compete with stocks. That's still a ways higher, but some serious consideration needs to be given to what is happening.
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New tax laws expected to trigger a wave of share buybacks, SpaceX secretly launches a rocket, and other important headlines.
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One strategy that investors can use to be defensive without taking the extremely low return of bonds is with stocks characterized as low-volatility ones.
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With the markets grinding higher and expensive, playing it safe makes sense now and may really make sense in 2018.
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