Share repurchases are kinder than cash dividends to shareholders who have to pay taxes.
The bottom line is that cash dividends have become more crucial to investors than ever before.
Lastly, cash has been spent consistently on stock repurchase programs as well as cash dividends.
Value stocks had lowest prices relative to earnings, cash-flow and book value and the highest cash dividends.
Of these three, only Essex has maintained the consistency of paying increased cash dividends for 19 years.
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Stock prices will plummet on the end of the Bush tax cuts for capital gains and cash dividends.
Other trusts are more lavish with their cash dividends--and more suspect as investments.
These companies pay cash dividends in excess of 2% and are raising them.
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Valuations were lower overall prior to 1950 because companies paid out a significant amount of their earnings as cash dividends.
Growth stocks had the highest prices relative to earnings, cash-flow and book value as well as the lowest cash dividends.
Intuit, wisely, pays no cash dividends (which will be taxed at a federal rate of up to 44.6%, beginning in 2013).
Few may realize that if you can afford to reinvest your cash dividends in the marketplace, then you can create even greater gains for yourself.
As a matter of financial theory, there is nothing magical about buying in shares--nothing that can't be accomplished with plain old cash dividends.
The company will begin paying quarterly cash dividends in April.
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The company attributes this to higher cash taxes paid in 2012 as a result of higher earnings as well as not receiving any cash dividends from the Alumbrera Mine.
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He warns that some parent companies saddle their spinoffs with debt in order to pay cash dividends, as Sears did when it spun off Orchard Supply Hardware early in 2012.
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Wharton School Professor Jeremy Siegel has discovered that reinvesting all your cash dividends in more shares of the same stock (not so easy to do by the way) can mean over a long period of time a contribution of significant return.
But if you could build a portfolio where half of the expected return is cash dividends, to which you could depend on buybacks and debt pay downs of another 150 basis points, we now have a 6% yield.
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This means keeping more cash flow for exploration and production, and less cash for dividends.
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Despite their big yields, none of these companies pay big portions of their income or cash on dividends.
Aggressive growth stocks that reinvest all their cash flows are more likely to have high valuations and are unwilling or unable to pay out cash as dividends.
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If the reasons behind making an acquisition include corporate synergies, solving logistical setbacks, or making the company more valuable in general, a purchase would make much more sense than simply giving away the cash via dividends or share repurchases.
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There is no question that dividends are one way public companies return cash flow to investors, but statistics prove that float shrink is better for overall price performance as the stock of companies who shrink the float using free cash flow rise more then companies using the same amount of cash to pay dividends.
Naturally, the higher rents are going to bolster cash flows and dividends for apartment REITs.
If, for some reason, they should fail to put their cash mountains to work, investors will demand the cash back through dividends and share buybacks.
The trick for investors is to find trusts that have sufficient wells to generate the necessary cash to cover dividends, as well as interest and operating costs.
Critics are on stronger ground when they complain that private-equity firms burdened companies with debt, took the cash out as dividends and sometimes drove them to the wall.
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