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18 High Growth, Low Beta At Fair Prices Stocks

For the uninitiated, each stock has a beta, which is indicative of its volatility. The beta of a stock is considered in relation to that of the broad market: The lower the beta, the less volatile the stock. So a stock with a beta of less than 1 is considered to be less volatile than the market, while a stock that has a beta of more than 1 is more volatile than the market.

We have scoured the market for several low-beta, high-performance stocks that look promising for the future and can safeguard your portfolio against risks. Each of the stocks are selected by high profitable growth criteria and cheap market valueations.

These stocks belong in your dividend portfolio....

The Most Popular Buyback Champions Of The Year Compiled In 3 Charts

Stock Buybacks are essential for financial engineering. If a company has strong cash flows but only low abilities to grow while their business operates with strong competitor entry barriers, it makes definitely sense to create shareholder value by buying back own shares.

Paying out the whole net income of the company is also a good option but second choice if you compare the tax payments from both sides, the shareholder and corporate.

Today I would like to show you the most important buyback stocks. Apple is definitely the king of them. The smartphone maker bought back own stocks in an amount of nearly USD 40 billion over the past year.

In general, technology is the most represented sector on the list of the best buyback stocks of the past year.

Microsoft, Qualcom, Oracle and Intel also join the exclusive club of the buyback kings.

These are the Top 10 companies by dollar buyback volume of the latest quarter....

These 10 Stocks Gave Investors $50 Billion In Just One Quarter

Attached you will find an interesting list of stocks that gave investors the highest amount of money back. Dividends and buybacks were combined calculated.

Buybacks and dividends are two important issues in corporate finance to create shareholder value via financial engineering.

Apple is still the biggest fish on the list, paying nearly USD 16 billion to its shareholders within the recent quarter. Microsoft follows with USD 7 dividend payments and stock buybacks.


Here are the top yielding results in detail...


7 Good Running Companies That May Pay A Dividend For The First Time

Dividends are great but not all companies pay a dividend. Why? Well, there are many reasons, some might put all free cash-flow into the business in order to boost growth or they are buying back own shares and increases your stake in the company.

Those activities make only sense whey they have a stable running and continuous growing business like McDonalds or Coca Cola.

The second reason why a corporate pays no dividend is because they do not earn money and make losses. That's a really bad issue and I can tell you that it doesn't make sense to put money into a loss-generating machine.

Back to the topic of this article, today I like to introduce 7 stocks with a forward-orientated business that did not pay dividends buy may do it in the near future. It's always great to see what kind of stocks may appear on your dividend radar before others might see it.

Don't look to critical at the P/E valuation. The Enterprise Value gives a more fair view of the stocks. Most of them sit on tons of cash. I've written also a good article about stocks with the biggest cash accounts abroad. GE was on the first place there.

If you like more ideas about Dividend Champions with zero debt, you should check out this article: Dividend Champions With Zero Debt And Promising Payout Growth.

These are the results....

The Best Performing NASDAQ 100 Stocks Since Tech Bubble Burst In 2001

Nasdaq 100 Stock Performance Since February 2001 By Bespoke. The Nasdaq 100 traded this morning to levels it has not seen since February 6th, 2001. While the index itself is flat since then, just 36 stocks in the index today were also in the index back then. Below we highlight the performance since 2/6/01 of these 36 stocks: