Dividends and Buybacks

Dividends and Buybacks Articles

UBS Dividend Rulers portfolio focuses on stocks with solid dividends that have consistently grown over time, and their performance this year is outstanding.
These four Merrill Lynch stock picks run the gamut of risk, but they all have one thing in common, solid payouts with decent growth potential.
It was just last week that investors learned that all of the major banks were shown to have passed their Federal Reserve stress tests. Now the capital return plans (CCAR) have been approved as well....
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) keeps moving closer and closer to being an industrial conglomerate rather than a conglomerate that is part industrial and part bank. While the company has been rapidly...
A rally on Tuesday and strength on Wednesday feels like a welcome relief after two very depressing trading sessions. Still, one thing seems to be assured. The British exit, hence Brexit, from the...
Most investors know that logically buying the U.S. 30 year Treasury bond at a 2.26% yield makes little sense. Ditto for a 10-year yield under 1.50%. This almost feels particularly painful when you...
When times get tough, equity investors often flock to defensive stocks. This is traditionally food and water, utilities, consumer products, tobacco, beer and booze, and other things that people have...
It was just in the week of June 25, before the surprise of the Brexit news, that the market was told about record stock buybacks in the first quarter of 2016. Standard & Poor’s showed that...
The Federal Reserve has finally released the results of the 2016 stress tests. If there is one thing you need to take away from this, it is that all of the nation’s big banks clear the bar for...
Standard & Poor's has now shown that the first quarter of 2016 saw a 12% rise in buyback spending to a whopping $161.4 billion.
The number of S&P 500 companies with buybacks in the first calendar quarter of 2016 was up a sharp 12% from a year earlier.
Cemtrex has announced that its board of directors approved a new repurchase authorization for up to a million of its outstanding shares over the next 12 months.
These four master limited partnerships (MLPs) offer defensive characteristics (price protection) with offensive capabilities (upside to their targets).
In telecom and wireless phone providers, there exist two stable players, one rising player and one that is expected to keep losing money.
So what are investors who are looking for dividends to do in low-yield environment that could remain this way for some time?