Dividends and Buybacks
Dividends and Buybacks Articles
ThinkstockVisa Inc. (NYSE: V) was among the most recent additions to the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). It is obviously a systemic measurement of credit card use globally, but it is now also...
Published:
ThinkstockHistory shows that years following sub-2% GDP growth tend to be good for stocks, but near-term exuberance, with investors focusing again on momentum stocks, could signal a pause after the...
Published:
ThinkstockDigital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR) is supposed to be the landlord of the cloud. That should imply not only endless growth but dividend growth as well. Unfortunately, the growth of the...
Published:
Jon OggInternational Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) has just lived up to its promise of endless share buybacks with a greatly expanded share buyback plan. The goal is to keep buying up the stock...
Published:
ThinkstockCredit Suisse has shown a very mixed report on its coverage of utilities on Tuesday. We have seen one very positive call on Northeast Utilities (NYSE: NU), followed by caution in...
Published:
ThinkstockBank of America Merrill Lynch has refreshed a huge coverage list of master limited partnerships, or MLPs. The firm has shown that forty-eight MLPs in its coverage universe have declared...
Published:
Jon OggWe have seen the short interest reports for the October 15 settlement date. It turns out that short sellers have been getting out of the way of the bull market after previously increasing...
Published:
ThinkstockThis year has been a stellar one for stocks, with the S&P 500 Index up more than 22% and with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up more than 18% in 2013. The real estate investment trust...
Published:
Jon OggInvestors have become all too familiar with the increasingly difficult task of scouring the investment universe for income-generating securities. Bond investors have been forced farther and...
Published:
Jon Ogg24/7 Wall St. is a huge fan of dividends. Rising dividends and safe high-yield dividends are even better. What is not good is when things are bad enough that a company will have to cut its...
Published:
ThinkstockThe master limited partnerships (MLPs) earnings season is getting underway with some of the top names set to report earnings imminently. The MLP research team at Credit Suisse expects...
Published:
ThinkstockThe world of master limited partnerships (MLPs) is one of high payouts, in the form of a return of capital and dividend income. There has been a growing concern of late that many MLPs...
Published:
courtesy GameStop Corp.The $8.2 billion deal that Activision Blizzard Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) made to repurchase its stock from France’s Vivendi S.A. was reinstated Thursday afternoon by the Delaware...
Published:
Last Updated:
Wikimedia CommonsConglomerates are supposed to be stable earnings due to diversified sources of income. That implies that they are supposed to have safe and growing dividends as well. Now we have...
Published:
Jon OggDoes anyone truly care about it being the 2013 Securities Analyst Meeting for Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ)? The stock market is so enthralled with the company that even the S&P Indexes...
Published: