But the presence of Honda is bad news either way for your General Motors dividends.
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.
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Instead, banks have had to resort to cutting their dividends or selling shares in the open market.
Tax on income from dividends and interest payments will jump painfully from 15% to a maximum of 39.6%.
He notes that the historical return got a large boost from dividends, and that dividends are meager today.
And they build trusting relationships among the participants, relationships that pay huge dividends when tragedy strikes.
Plaintiffs believe it was a classic Ponzi scheme, where Sweesy paid out dividends with new money.
Just as good, the company instituted dividends last year, and the payout yield now is 2.6%.
So while the current dividends are safe, any increases in 2008 are likely to be minimal.
Second, institute laws that protect foreign investments and guarantee the repatriation of profits and dividends.
Jim Tisch expects the business to start paying dividends soon, helping Loews' cash pile.
Dividends, as we noted last year, are a big part of the allure here.
Not some pie in the sky proposal that may pay dividends years down the road.
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BlackRock(BLK) expects that extra 6% cash to be utilized for buybacks and raising dividends.
But in theory shareholders should not care whether dividends are paid out today or later.
Finally, dividends will be taxfree at the corporate level, and individuals will get a 50% exemption.
But that's cash that could have been paid out to the shareholders as dividends.
Since 1954, dividends have been subject to marginal taxation, with preferential treatment since 2003.
Con Edison has increased shareholder dividends every year for nearly 40 consecutive years.
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That means cash-rich Apple is, paradoxically, borrowing money to finance dividends and buybacks for its shareholders.
Fortunately for the income-hungry investor, there are safer dividends to be found in REITs.
This is a clever approach which may pay large dividends in terms of processing times.
We set the screener to find big market caps, decent dividends and reasonable price earnings ratios.
As a precursor to privatisation, both banks felt they had to start paying dividends again.
Many corporations would rather pay interest expenses since they are tax-deductible, whereas dividends are not.
As a result, market caps crashed and cash flow available for dividends have all but disappeared.
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Generally, the highest individual income tax rate on qualified dividends is 15% for 2012.
This reduces capital availability and proves dual taxation on capital gains or dividends are counter-productive.
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