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Jim Trippon: On the face of it, stock buybacks look like good things. After all, the company is investing its cash in the company itself. If that isn’t a vote of confidence, what is? The company usually repurchases outstanding shares and retires them. Read more…
Ryan Fuhrmann: In his book Ron’s Road to Wealth, investor Ron Muhlenkamp explains that inflation increases the prices that consumers pay for goods and services. Read more…
Jim Trippon: Dividend investors have found this year and even the last several years to be good ones. Since the stock market averages began to come back after the 2008-2009 financial crisis, Read more…
From time to time we highlight some of the stocks that are part of the dividend universe, whether they’re increasing or decreasing their dividends or whether there is other news of interest, such as significant developments with earnings or other facets of these stocks’ Read more…
Jim Trippon: The dividend hits keep coming, as 2012 continues to be a good year, quietly or otherwise, for dividends. Two fast food giants, McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) and Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM) announced dividend increases. McDonald’s recently announced Read more…
Jim Trippon: Telecom giant Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) recently raised its quarterly dividend from 50 cents per share to 51.5 cents, for an annual payout of $2.06. This is a 3 percent increase in the dividend, and is the sixth consecutive year for a dividend increase. Read more…
David Dittman:Â We are long past the point where information technology (IT) and systems management products, services and consulting are revolutionary aspects Read more…
Jim Trippon: Investors in stocks AOL (NYSE:AOL) and Fisher Communications (NASDAQ:FSCI) had to feel the glow of holding onto a lucky winner the other day, when both companies announced special dividend payments. As part of a plan to return $1.1 billion Read more…
Roger Conrad: Thanks to investors’ flight to safety and unabated hunger for generous dividends, the Dow Jones Utility Average (DJUA) is within a few percentage points of its all-time highs. Read more…
Jim Trippon: We’ve written recently about a relatively simple way to apply a portfolio management technique to your dividend holdings, which we labeled as “keep some, sell some.†This enables a dividend investor to build and keep a core of portfolio holdings, Read more…
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