Dividends and Buybacks
Dividends and Buybacks Articles
Jon OggRising interest rates on 10-year Treasuries suddenly may start competing against the high-dividend and high-yield stock sectors. The real question is which sectors will hold up and which ones...
Published:
Last Updated:
ThinkstockShort sellers are have previously been all over the place when it comes to the high-yield dividend stocks. The May 15 settlement date is during what should have been (or could have been) a...
Published:
ThinkstockThe research team at Deutsche Bank A.G (NYSE: DB), recently put out an in-depth piece on the food industry as a defensive place to put money and keep earning dividends. They point out that...
Published:
Last Updated:
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsThe New York Stock Exchange is showing something that we would be more concerned about than optimistic. Margin debt at the NYSE grew for the ninth consecutive month...
Published:
Last Updated:
ThinkstockSterne Agee analyst Vijay Rakesh has given a snapshot on various semiconductor sector plays ahead. While many fundamental analysts have keyed in on fundamentals, one of Rakesh’s angles is...
Published:
Last Updated:
Jon OggIt has been hard to ignore the rise in bond yields on the longer end of the Treasury curve in recent days. The market keeps looking for clues from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and...
Published:
ThinkstockThe consumer is the key to the economy improving. The consumer is also the key for revenue growth and success for the major U.S retail REITs. The International Council of Shopping Centers...
Published:
Last Updated:
courtesy of General Electric Co.General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) did not get treated well after its first-quarter earnings report. Perhaps the largest problem was that the conglomerate’s stock had...
Published:
Jon OggWhen it comes to returning capital to shareholders, companies generally choose to pay dividends or to start share buyback plans. Many companies do both, but the real question to ask is which...
Published:
ThinkstockA strong stock market has the oil and gas master limited partnerships (MLPs) on fire in 2013, which already offer high dividends or distributions as income and return of capital. MLPs...
Published:
Last Updated:
ThinkstockNetApp Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) is reporting its fourth-quarter corporate earnings and it is throwing in a larger share buyback plan and is initiating a dividend payment to support the news. The...
Published:
Jon OggThe news flow around J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) and Jamie Dimon has overshadowed the possibility that the largest bank by assets is increasing its dividend for the common stock...
Published:
courtesy of AppleApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) set a record for its $17 billion debt offering in the last month, but the entire borrowing could have been avoided if there was not such a high corporate...
Published:
courtesy of General ElectricGeneral Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is already on the path to raise its dividend later in the year. Now we have word from the company that GE Capital will pay the parent...
Published:
ThinkstockActivist investor Carl Icahn had proposed that the world’s largest offshore drilling firm, Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG), pay shareholders a one-time dividend of $4 a share and to replace 3...
Published:
Last Updated: