Dividends and Buybacks
The highest yielding stock among the S&P 500 is a telecom stock not named AT&T.
17 days ago
With even moderate appreciation in the shares prices of these top companies, investors could be looking at double-digit total return potential. In a market that is very long in the tooth, that makes...
22 days ago
There have been five significant acquisitions in the oil patch in the second half of 2020. Here's a look at how the acquirers are shaping up for 2021.
23 days ago
There are four U.S. companies that currently have a market value of more than $1 trillion. All four are expected to continue performing well, but, perhaps, not as well as they have this year.
25 days ago
24/7 Wall St. looks at some of the biggest dividend yields in the S&P 500 and why they may be worth buying into.
30 days ago
AT&T remains one of the county's largest companies, and it has a dividend that produces a generous yield. No other public corporation of its size comes even close.
1 month ago
Some investors will keep questioning and second-guessing whether the oil and gas giants will be able to keep paying out those ridiculously high dividends in the future.
1 month ago
Costco shares made a handy gain on Tuesday after the board of directors declared a special dividend for the common stock.
1 month ago
Shares of Marathon Oil and Marathon Petroleum jumped by more than 8% on Monday. The gain could disappear as quickly as it appeared.
1 month ago
Investors get numerous chances to see longer-term forecasts by analysts, strategists and economists. And each year it is common that the larger brokerage firms issue new price targets for the year...
2 months ago
Here are 13 other companies that should seriously entertain splitting their stocks. Splits are of course a gimmick, but the stock market usually rewards companies for splitting their stocks.
2 months ago
While New Residential is not alone in being nowhere close to recovering its pre-recession value, there is a reasonable case that the falling book value woes may be behind it.
3 months ago
Exxon has updated its quarterly earnings considerations. The big question is how exactly Exxon can continue to maintain its massive dividend beyond 2020.
3 months ago
24/7 Wall St. has looked deeper into the new capital restrictions and evaluated how the dividends are looking at the four top money center banks.
3 months ago
News that NextEra Energy is interested in acquiring Duke Energy opens the door for more potential mergers in the industry.
3 months ago