Dividends and Buybacks

Dividends and Buybacks Articles

In a decision that was all but made for it, Kinder Morgan announced after markets closed on Tuesday that it is chopping its annual dividend.
With oil plunging, and the market reeling from what should prove to be extremely good news for consumers, many investors are in a quandary over which path to take for 2016.
AT&T is likely to join the ranks of companies hiking their dividends before year-end, but will it out-hike Verizon Communications?
With the market very possibly poised for years of sideways trading and single-digit gains, the total return potential from these blue chips is outstanding.
Kinder Morgan said that its latest calculations indicate that it will generate distributable cash flow of "slightly over" $5 billion in 2016.
The best of both worlds for aggressive growth accounts is mega-cap technology safety combined with regular and rising dividends.
It is that time of year when investors and consumers alike are starting to think about the end of this year and the start of next one.
Buying high-yielding blue chips for 2016 makes good sense. The Federal Reserve interest rate increases over the next two years are expected to remain very small and very measured.
Despite the howling from political candidates trying to make the top drug-makers their whipping boy in populist campaign efforts, the need and demand for pharmaceuticals will only continue. This...
While the determination on interest rates going higher isn’t a totally done deal, the signs pointing to a December lift-off are about as strong as they can be. Toss in the fact that Federal Reserve...
The inevitable finally seems to be right around the corner. Barring some huge geopolitical storm in the next three weeks, the Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates for the first time in...
A new Merrill Lynch research report says the market has spoken, and the Federal Reserve is free to start the hikes in December.
Nike is delivering everything that shareholders love to hear: raising the dividend, buying back more stock and even splitting its shares.
If you are surprised about Intel announcing that it has hiked its dividend again, you haven't been reading 24/7 Wall St. long enough.
24/7 Wall St. screened the Merrill Lynch research universe for large-cap blue chip stocks that paid a 5% dividend.