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Beyond an Apple Dividend… A Stock Buyback? (AAPL, MSFT, CSCO)

Posted: September 13, 2011 at 8:34 am

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been one of our dividend offenders for quite some time, but it is hard to argue that the company's equity-investor strategy has been wrong.  After ...
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Is IBM’s Growth Dying? (IBM, HPQ, DELL)

Posted: September 1, 2011 at 1:20 pm

International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) might have been raised to "Buy" by Goldman Sachs in the middle of August, but the ongoing slowness in the economy may be taking ...
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August’s New Massive Stock Buybacks… Over $30 Billion (LOW, CVS, CELG, COV, INTU, DISCA, HRS, LMT, RSG, LOW, ABC, MXIM, ANR, AVT, JAH, LUV, STJ, ECL, IPG, FRX, ACE, CLF, CTSH, KBR, NWL, VRX, AKAM, AOL, DLB, URBN, ACM, CHTR, MYGN, PFG, HSIC)

Posted: August 31, 2011 at 3:00 pm

The pace of stock buyback announcements in the month of August was almost unbelievable.  The pace was stronger at the start of the month when earnings were still coming in ...
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Lowe’s Joins Big Box Buyback Parade (LOW, HD, WMT, TGT, COST, BBY, AAPL)

Posted: August 22, 2011 at 9:45 am

Shares in home improvement store Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) were trading higher by around 3% in the pre-market this morning on news that the company will initiate a $5 ...
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Share Buyback Announcements Continue In Droves (PFG, BIN, CLF, LTM, ACM, FRX, IPG, MYGN, RSG, LO, NWL, TIVO)

Posted: August 17, 2011 at 1:18 pm

It was just last week that we had identified literally 25 big share buyback announcements from companies in the preceding two weeks.  These companies were actually buying back the stock ...
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CEOs Buying Their Own Companies At A Discount (NLY, CHTR, D, EQY, GBX, HUN, LEAP, LGND, MBRG, MS, TIE, WIN)

Posted: August 12, 2011 at 3:49 pm

Investors couldn't have missed seeing the recent waves of new corporate share buyback plans. What they may have not noticed as clearly is the increasing trend in "legal insider trading" ...
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Ten Companies That Can Greatly Increase Buybacks to Stop Share Slide (CSCO, WMT, KSS, HD, LOW, GME, DELL, COP, GD, GE, PKW)

Posted: August 9, 2011 at 9:54 am

Although stock buybacks have never been among our most preferred methods of returning capital to investors, stock repurchase plans can indicate to investors that a company's management believes the ship ...
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More Than 20 Great Companies Which Refuse To Pay Dividends (AMZN, AMGN, AAPL, BBBY, BRK-A, CBB, DELL, DG, DLTR, EBAY, ERTS, EMC, ESRX, FLEX, GOOG, JACK, NDAQ, SYMC, UAL, URBN, WDC, YHOO, ZBRA, CSCO, VMW, MHS)

Posted: July 28, 2011 at 11:05 am

If you have been a reader of 24/7 Wall St. for long, you know that we appreciate companies that pay dividends just about as much the investors who buy ...
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Despite Woes, New Buybacks & Dividend Hikes Stay Strong (AOS, CLF, CMI, KLAC, NWS)

Posted: July 12, 2011 at 9:58 am

The market is soft, the economy hit a soft patch, and now woes are building about Italy beyond Greece, while China and India keep applying the brakes on growth.  This ...
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Alt-Energy Watch: Another Believer in Solar Consolidation (FSLR, STP, YGE, TSL, SPWRA, SHCAY)

Posted: July 5, 2011 at 4:25 pm

As part of last week's story on stock buybacks in the solar PV industry, we opined that a consolidation in the solar industry is looking to take shape.  Acquisitions and ...
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The Solar Consolidation Phase May Just Be Starting (JASO, LDK, JKS, SPWRA, TOT, RSOL, WFR, FSLR, ESLR, ENER, TAN)

Posted: July 1, 2011 at 10:38 am

The merger and consolidation phase in solar may be getting underway.  Solar PV maker JA Solar Holdings, Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ: JASO) has reached an agreement to purchase privately held Silver ...
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Apollo Group Finds Salvation in Outlook… When Buybacks Win (APOL)

Posted: June 30, 2011 at 5:06 pm

It was not that long ago that Apollo Group Inc. (NASDAQ: APOL) was under serious pressure from Washington D.C. along with other for-profit education stocks.  Now the regulations have come ...
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When Great Share Buybacks Are Clouded By Awful Buybacks, Dividends Rule (XOM, IBM, PG, EMC, COP, HPQ, DTV, TRV, KO, MCD, MSFT, CSCO, WMT, LOW, HD, PFE, GS)

Posted: June 29, 2011 at 2:39 pm

There are several ways in which companies can return money to shareholders, but the two most common methods of returning cash to shareholders are dividends and stock buybacks.  Dividends ...
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If All Major Solar Companies Announce Share Buybacks… (LDK, JKS, SOLR, STP, JASO, TSL)

Posted: June 27, 2011 at 12:02 pm

Solar PV makers are facing a tough second half of 2011. Forecast supply is expected to exceed demand, and virtually every solar supplier is seeing its stock price head south. ...
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Best Buy Proves Value Case, Second Time In Days (BBY)

Posted: June 21, 2011 at 8:40 am

We have already called Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) a great value stock before and after its last earnings report last week.  Despite a choppy market, its shares have ...
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