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The Abbott Break-Up Seems To Make Sense (ABT, BIIB, BMY)

Posted: October 19, 2011 at 10:18 am

Drug and medical stocks are not generally thought of as stocks hitting 52-week highs by the investing public.  So what about when a company decides to unlock shareholder value by ...
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Tyco Break-Up Chases ITT… GE or United Tech Moves Ahead? (TYC, ITT, UTX, GR, GE)

Posted: September 19, 2011 at 7:48 am

Tyco International Ltd. (NYSE: TYC) already partly deconglomerized in a three-way break up of the company.  Now its core parent company is splitting up what is left of the operation ...
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AIG to Spin-off Plane-Leasing Subsidiary (AIG, BA, GE, EADSY, UTX, BAC, C, JPM, MS)

Posted: September 2, 2011 at 10:45 am

American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) has filed a registration Form S-1 for a proposed initial public offering of its wholly-owned IFLC Holdings, Inc. subsidiary. IFLC is the aircraft leasing ...
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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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More Waves of Stock Splits Heading This Way (LULU, OKS, TGI, SNHY, CLH, OKE)

Posted: July 7, 2011 at 12:55 pm

The mania of stock splits is not quite as fast and furious as it was earlier in June on the split calendar, but we are still seeing some key ...
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Bracing For More Key Stock Splits (SIX, AMX, LULU, MMS)

Posted: June 27, 2011 at 5:14 pm

We have noticed a near-record wave of stock splits of late despite the trend of today where companies have tended to prefer high share prices over record share prices.  ...
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10 Reasons Apple Won’t Pay a Dividend Any Time Soon (AAPL, MSFT, CSCO, NFLX, SIRI, AKAM, TIVO)

Posted: June 10, 2011 at 6:30 am

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has enjoyed massive growth over the last decade.  It has overcome a near-death experience and transformed itself into the second largest company by market capitalization.  Now ...
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The Serious Return of Stock Splits (CLH, OKS, OKE, ALXN, CERN, PLCM, CWT, OII, CSX, SIX, IIVI, FLO, CHD, PEIXD, C, AAPL, GOOG, NFLX)

Posted: June 8, 2011 at 10:36 am

Stock splits usually bring back memories of the old tech bubble and dot-com bubble.  Fundamentally, nothing changes at the company other than that smaller investors get to invest in ...
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Key Stocks To Watch This Coming Week, The Unusual Suspects (AIG, ACOM, BAC, BRK-A, BRK-B, BMTI, C, CROX, GPRE, SLV, LULU, NBG, PG, RAH, CAG, SNE, THC, CYH, X)

Posted: May 8, 2011 at 11:42 am

We have a very busy week ahead for equity investors, even outside of earnings season.  This coming week's key events, what we call The Unusual Suspects, is non-earnings related and ...
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Anticipating the Citigroup Reverse Stock Split, Trading Implications are Major and Many (C, AIG, NYX, BAC, WFC, JPM, RF, KEY, BPOP, IRE, AIB, NBG)

Posted: May 6, 2011 at 2:47 pm

Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) is about to get a huge stock makeover.  This is its last week as a stock in the single-dollar digits.  At least that is what the ...
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Dividend Watch: The Stock Dividend & High-Yield Bank Dividends (VLY)

Posted: April 13, 2011 at 10:52 am

Valley National Bancorp (NYSE: VLY) was recently featured in our dividend watch for the already-high dividend yields that came out before the rest of the TARP banks were allowed to reinstate their ...
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Dividend Watch: FMC Technologies Coming Share Split (FTI, PBR)

Posted: March 28, 2011 at 11:01 am

FMC Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: FTI) is soon to reflect what many investors consider the next best thing to a dividend: a stock split.  It was about a month ago that ...
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Citi Reverse Split & Dividend: Three-Card Monty (C)

Posted: March 21, 2011 at 8:53 am

Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) is announcing something that we are a bit surprised about this morning.  It is not quite a shell game, but it is a strategy that rarely ...
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Exchange-Traded Scare: US Natural Gas Fund… The Split (UNG)

Posted: March 9, 2011 at 2:04 pm

The exchange-traded product of the United States Natural Gas Fund, LP (NYSE: UNG) has been controversial. Most active investors thought the exchange-traded product was basically buying exposure to natural gas ...
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When ETFs Have Stock Splits (TQQQ, URTY, UMDD, UPRO)

Posted: February 18, 2011 at 9:07 am

Investors love stock splits.  Occasionally you actually see stock splits occur in Exchange Traded Funds.  These splits technically do not change the compositions or the price mechanisms, but they may ...
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