Dividends and Buybacks

Dividends and Buybacks Articles

Wells Fargo has promised frequently to do more share buybacks and to keep returning capital to its shareholders.
24/7 Wall St. has identified seven very well-known companies with a consumer focus that need to pay dividends.
Here are the 2016 dividend sinners (or dividend misers) in the technology sector from 24/7 Wall St. Not only are these established tech stocks, they are all members of the S&P 500 Index.
24/7 Wall St. screened the list of the top Merrill Lynch picks for the dividend yielding stocks that are on sale and found four outstanding ones to buy now.
Friday morning the oil and gas producer Chesapeake Energy said it was suspending the dividend on its preferred stock.
24/7 Wall St. screened the Merrill Lynch research data base for stocks that should not only hold up well in the face of continued selling but have solid upside potential when things turn higher. They...
Only one sector is higher so far in 2016, and it is the utility sector. Buying safe utility stocks now to ride out the storm makes absolute sense for growth and income and conservative accounts.
A vault like balance sheet, decades of profit and dividend payments, presence in a growing tech sector, and several businesses nearly immune to recession. Verizon (NYSE: VZ). 24/7 Wall St. co-founder...
Two new dividend exchange-traded funds have launched. Reality Shares has now launched two alternative dividend growth funds. One is the Reality Shares DIVCON Dividend Defender ETF (DFND). The other...
General Motors has announced an improved profit outlook for 2016, a dividend hike and an increase in its stock repurchase program.
Two news items from Plains All American Pipeline released Tuesday morning pushed the midstream energy company's shares up nearly 25% shortly after the opening bell.
Acorn International led the bulls in Monday’s session following the announcement of a newly authorized share repurchase plan.
If you want to own stocks no matter what, ones with serious long-term prospects and dividends, the class of defensive stocks is where investors will want to hide out.
Unfortunately for investors, even when fundamentals look reasonably good for the economy, world headline events can make the sellers rush to the desk to dispose of stocks. As China continues to melt...
In 2015, U.S. companies spent more of their actual cash buying back their own shares of stock than the cash component of acquisitions — and both added up to a record over any prior year.