Dividends and Buybacks

Dividends and Buybacks Articles

Credit Suisse thinks that Wal-Mart’s dividend yield should limit further downside as investors wait for possible strategic changes to its business.
With Panera Bread out of the Merrill Lynch US 1 List, these dividend contrarian plays could make good sense now.
Philip Morris International might be looking to entice more investors with an even stronger dividend, or at least one key analyst thinks so.
The monumental drop in the price of oil originally was believed to leave many master limited partnerships unscathed. This has been far from universally true, and some MLPs have had to dial back on...
Fitch Ratings has warned that continued pressure in the commodities could impact the available funding for the MLPs.
Alibaba reported mixed fiscal first-quarter 2016 results and share buybacks before markets opened Wednesday morning.
24/7 Wall St. maintains on its watch list a slew of defensive dividend stocks that investors flock to during periods of uncertainty. The trick is to know which companies are appropriate at a given...
A new research report from UBS makes an interesting tech switch in the Dividend Rulers portfolio. We also update the other two large cap tech stocks that remain in the Dividend Rulers list.
It turns out that the sector for master limited partnerships (MLPs) had rolled back over. It was just in the past two weeks or so that the MLPs tried to bounce off of lows.
Stockcharts.comLong-term investors always look for companies that show signs that they will be around for a while. Membership on the Dividend Aristocrats list gives indication of longevity. In order...
ThinkstockOil refiner Marathon Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: MPC) announced at noon on Wednesday that its board has authorized a dividend increase from a current level of $0.25 per share to $0.32 per share...
Kinder Morgan Inc.Azure Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: AZUR) is one of the high-yield master limited partnerships (MLPs) that has a distribution, or a payout yield equivalent, that is well north of...
If there was ever a measure of internal corporate bullishness, especially when a company is generating substantial free cash flow, it is how much stock the company is buying back in the open market.
24/7 Wall St. cannot help but wonder if investors are finally ready to place a premium on book value in Bank of America and in Citigroup now that the bottom in the market was more than six years ago.
Among investors, Friday's announcement by ConocoPhillips that it would raise its dividend by a penny and cut its deepwater exploration budget was received with mixed reactions.