Dividends and Buybacks
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ThinkstockKimberly-Clark Corp. (NYSE: KMB) received almost no coverage for the dividend hike that was announced on Tuesday. For this consumer products giant to raise its dividend by almost 4% does...
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MLPs have become more prevalent in investor portfolios over the past couple of years. The problem is that this segment of the oil and gas sector has seen its valuations become lofty as investors have...
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One of the terrible things about taking interest rates to near zero and keeping them there is the savers in this country get murdered. After all these years of low rates, what is an income investor...
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ThinkstockSenior Housing Properties Trust (NYSE: SNH) has been an incredible dividend story. For years, it has sent solid dividends to its shareholders. That dividend yield is now up to a whopping...
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Melco Crown Entertainment, one of Macau's biggest casino operators, said profit doubled in the fourth quarter, thanks to its ability to attract so-called premium mass market gamblers.
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courtesy of Cisco SystemsCisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) has now reported its second-quarter earnings report. We suggested in our earnings preview that the bar was set very low because of the poor...
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The UBS team thinks that investors that take "flight to safety" into U.S. treasury bonds and defensive, high dividend yield equities could get hurt bad later in the year. In a new research report,...
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CenturyLink is a highly shorted stock, in part because of its major dividend yield, one of the highest in its peer group. So what happens when you see an analyst upgrade a stock like this? The timing...
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thinkstockBoardwalk Pipeline Partners L.P. (NYSE: BWP) was a total disaster on Monday, and it has 24/7 Wall St. wondering just how many other Master Limited Partnerships and trust structures in the...
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Apple may finally be free from outside activist shareholder pressure from the likes of Carl Icahn. In his newest letter to shareholders, Icahn appears to be backing off entirely from his push for...
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Pre-eminent proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has come down on the side of Apple in its clash with activist investor Carl Icahn over an additional $50 billion share buyback...
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courtesy of Apple Inc.Pressure from Carl Icahn, the activist investor who has taken a stake in Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and demanded the company return tens of billions of dollars to shareholders, has...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Apple has repurchased more than $40 billion worth of its own shares in the past 12 months, a total he claimed is a record for any company. Who cares? Certainly not...
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harley-davidson.comHarley-Davidson, Inc. (NYSE: HOG) is one of those truly iconic American brands. It was iconic enough that Warren Buffett even did a preferred financing deal with the company during...
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Dow component 3M is confident enough about its future that it announced late Tuesday a new, open-ended $12 billion stock buyback plan. The announcement did not say how the buyback will be financed.
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