A short-term pop in dividend stocks is not likely. The market has re-priced these stocks over the past five months. |
Buying back stock to offset dilution is not a bad thing but it's not sending a message about the attractiveness of the security, |
Buying back stock to offset dilution is not a bad thing but it's not sending a message about the attractiveness of the security. |
From a competitive standpoint, before, [generally] technology companies didn't pay dividends. Now they have lost another argument for not paying one, |
I don't think it's going to run away on the upside any time soon. Fallen angels tend to take awhile to get some confidence built back up, |
I have to assume that dividends is a big conversation in boardrooms right now. I don't get the sense that companies need all this money for research and development and buying back stock. |
If you're a cereal company it's not likely you're going to have fifty companies run out of a garage nipping at your heels. Tech companies do have to continue to innovate. |
It will be a slow evolution, ... Dividends are a long-term investor's focus and for folks that are more short-term oriented it's not essential. And let's face it. A lot of tech investors tend to be shorter-term investors than average investors. |
It will be a slow evolution. Dividends are a long-term investor's focus and for folks that are more short-term oriented it's not essential. And let's face it. A lot of tech investors tend to be shorter-term investors than average investors. |
Looking closer at the entire group, I think the clouds will clear on drug stocks sooner than on Merck as an individual company, ... Yields are attractive for the entire group. |
Microsoft has shown increasingly good stewardship over shareholder's capital, |
We're finally seeing dividend payers starting to outperform. That's a healthy long-awaited sign that people are seeking out quality. |