Dividends and Buybacks

Dividends and Buybacks Articles

The biggest companies are often the safest to buy, and with the market still right at all-time highs, these liquid, large cap leaders make good sense now.
At 24/7 Wall St. we are constantly on the lookout for stocks that pay good dividends, are not horribly overbought and are rated reasonably high by some of the top firms we cover.
Despite its failure as a company and its disastrous business model, one positive thing Twitter could do is return its $3 billion in cash and short-term investments to shareholders.
These three safe and relatively defensive stocks that pay solid dividends could be outstanding choices for income accounts looking to take utility gains and roll into something with better upside...
The post-Brexit rally has been outstanding, and taking profits now makes very good sense. The question is what to do with the proceeds.
With some of the highest-yielding securities taking a drubbing over the last year, the chances that some could rally are much better now.
In a market that has been all over the place this year, from down 12% to hitting new all-time highs, the outperforming sectors have been the ones usually reserved for bad times on Wall Street.
One thing is for sure, earnings are the ticket to continued advances in the market, and the sectors that have lagged the market over the last four to seven quarters may be the ones that deliver the...
Though these clearly are stocks for more aggressive accounts, the total return potential is outstanding, and all of them do very well in their respective sectors.
With many stocks having just hit record highs, investors need at least a bit of an explanation here. One thing likely contributing to the gains is the endless effort in share buybacks by the biggest...
Most investors know that buying the U.S. 30-year Treasury bond now makes little sense, especially with yields hitting lows seen just once in almost 60 years.
After years of dividend growth, and after years of dividend chasing, now investors are being told that the overall climate is one in which U.S. dividends remain under pressure.
These blue chip dividend stocks are leaders in their respective sectors, and all four still offer investors decent value at current trading levels.
AT&T has seen a year-to-date gain of 30%. Now one analyst is saying that this stock's run has gone too far.
Enterprise Products Partners is the king of MLPs by size, even if revenue dropped in 2015 and even if revenues are expected to remain muted in 2016 and 2017.