10 Stocks With The Highest Buyback Yield

Investing in companies returning cash to shareholders via a combination of buybacks and dividends has proven to be an effective long-term strategy relative to the market and other uses of cash.

Since 1991, a sector-neutral basket of the S&P 500 stocks with the highest trailing combined dividend and buyback yields has returned an annualized 15.7% versus 13.8% for the top capex + R&D spenders and 12.8% for S&P 500. It seems this could be a great way to invest.

What is a stock purchase?

A stock repurchase occurs when a company asks stockholders to tender their shares for repurchase by the company. This is an alternate way for a company to increase value for stockholders. First, a repurchase can be used to restructure the company's capital structure without increasing the company's debt load.

Additionally, rather than a company changing its dividend policy, it can offer value to its stockholders through stock repurchases, keeping in mind that capital gains taxes are lower than taxes on dividends.

Advantages of a Stock Repurchase

Many companies initiate a share repurchase at a price level that management deems a good entry point. This point tends to be when the stock is estimated to be undervalued. If a company knows its business and relative stock price well, would it purchase its stock price at a high level? The answer is no, leading investors to believe the management perceives its stock price to be at a low level.

Unlike a cash dividend, a stock repurchase gives the decision to the investor. A stockholder can choose to tender his shares for repurchase, accept the payment and pay the taxes. With a cash dividend, a stockholder has no choice but to accept the dividend and pay the taxes.

At times, there may be a block of shares from one or more large shareholders that could come into the market, but the timing may be unknown. This problem may actually keep potential stockholders away since they may be worried about a flood of shares coming onto the market and lessening the stock's value. A stock repurchase can be quite useful in this situation.

However, let's come back to the real facts from the market. Attached you will find 10 stocks with the highest buyback yield of the past twelve months. The yield starts at 14.9% and ends at nearly 40%. Great values.

Here they are sorted by yield...

9 Best Undervalued Stocks To Buy And Hold For The Next 9 Years

The best holding period is forever, according to Warren Buffett, and we all should agree. 

Buying shares of high-quality businesses and holding them for years is the best way to compound your wealth. 

And if you can buy those shares at a discount to fair value, even better.

I evaluated 60 different companies this week to determine whether they are suitable for Defensive Investors. 

Out of those 60 companies, only 21 were found to be undervalued or fairly valued and suitable for either Defensive or Enterprising Investors.

Here are the 9 best results...

10 S&P 500 Companies With The Highest Shareholder Yield

10 S&P 500 Companies With The Highest
Shareholder Yield (click to enlarge); Source: Factset

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- 6 High-Quality Dividend Bargains For High-Income Investors 
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- 6 Oversold Dividend Aristocrats You Need To Know 
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20 Stocks With A Billion Dollar Buyback Program And Yields Over 2%

Let me ask you this: Would you rather buy a 10-year Treasury, which currently yields about 2%, or would you rather buy a large-cap stock with a 2% dividend yield, a billion-dollar stock buyback program, and share appreciation potential? 

With bond yields as low as they are, there's no contest. The Fed's zero interest rate policy has created a situation where there's nowhere to go except the stock market. 

Of course, the story will change once the Fed raises interest rates, which will make it more expensive for companies to borrow on the bond market. So there is a raging debate about when that will happen.

It is always better to own stocks in such situations. Those can hedge you against inflation. Fur sure, stocks are risky but if you look at the values of a company, and you avoid the big risks by not taking very cyclic stocks into your portfolio, you should be rewarded with a solid return.

Here are some alternatives with yields over 2% and a current buyback program worth over a billion dollar...

20 Best Yielding Profitable Growing Buyback Kings And My 8 Favorite Stocks

Today's screen discovers stocks with recent buyback announcements. I've compiled those stocks with a recent buyback program announcement.

Those buybacks are paid from a profitable operating business that is growing, not only in the past but should also go forward in the near future.

A consequence is that each of the attached stocks has a positive 5 years past sales performance, positive return on assets and positive expected 5 year EPS growth predictions as well.

Attached you will find the 20 best yielding results.

These are my personal favorites...

20 Stocks With At Least One Billion Share Buyback Plan In 2016

When corporations are profitable and established, they tend to return capital to shareholders. 

This can be achieved via stock buybacks to shrink the float and to support the stock, or it can be done via one-time dividends or by raising their annualized quarterly dividends.

In my blog, I often cover successful long-term dividend growth stocks. Those companies managed to raise dividends over a decade or half century.

I also talk a little about buyback stocks. Those gave more money back vie share repurchases which is in the end the same.

Today I would give you a short introduction into the biggest share buyback announced from the current fiscal year 2016.

As of now, we've noticed 94 companies with fresh, new, or increased buyback plans.

Here are the biggest announcements from fiscal 2016 to date...

A List Of The Top Dividend Payer From The Nasdaq 100

You might not think of “Nasdaq” as synonymous with big dividends. The Nasdaq Composite index, which essentially consists of every domestic and foreign stock that trades on the exchange, has long been heavy on technology. 

And technology companies have historically shown a bias for reinvesting their profits to finance future growth, rather than returning cash to shareholders. None of the FANGs — Facebook (symbol FB), Amazon.com (AMZN), Netflix (NFLX) and Google (GOOGL), now called Alphabet — pays a dividend but delivered one of the best returns in the past decade.

But dividends could give you a small hedge if a new game changer destroys the business model.
If you own a great Amazon or Facebook for a decade and you don't get money from them, you might be happy for a while if your stock positing skyrocked but what if your investment comes back to your initial investment amount? Right, you have nothing earned. That's the reason why dividends matter.

I've attached a list of the highest yielding stocks from the Nasdaq 100. If you like my news and dividend yield lists, you can easily subscribe my daily dividend newsletter for free. Just put your email in the subscription box and confirm the first mail.

12 Oversold 3%+ Yielding Dividend Stocks As Buying Opportunity

I love it when the market is anxious and everybody sells stocks. That's the moment when panic and emotions rule the manner of actors.

But when stocks fall, it does not necessary mean that stocks are bad. Those moments can change into a great buy opportunity for long-term investors.

When the markets are in panic, investors will sell their stocks below the intrinsic value. Today I like to introduce a few dividend stocks that seem oversold by several technical indicators. I've only focused my efforts on higher capitalized stocks with regular dividend payments.

Dividends are small risk compensation. For sure, if you get only 0.5 percent per quarter, it's a very small compensation but if you buy only stocks with a solid, valuable and predictable business, your risk compensation develops to yield compensation.

These are the top results....

Highest Yielding Dividend Stocks From Nasdaq 100

Did you notice that the Nasdaq hit the 5,000 yesterday? 

Congratulations, what a number. The Nasdaq index compromises many growth stocks, more than the Dow Jones did. 

That's also one of the reasons why the index is well-know for technology and innovation firms. 

But the technology sector isn't particularly known for finding good dividends. Indeed, many of the most exciting technology stocks don't pay a dividend at all.

Assuming they're profitable (an assumption that doesn't always hold), technology companies often funnel their cash back into their business rather than pay shareholders a dividend.

You may also like my articles related to technology dividend stocks. There are a few great ideas in it. Cash, innovations and growth are main topics.

Today I would like to celebrate the 5,000 mark by highlighting some of the highest yielding stocks from the index.

Around half of the index members pay a dividend and of them has a high yield of more than 5 percent. Attached is a list of the highest yielding top 20 stocks from the Nasdaq 100.

Here are my favorites in detail: 

8 High-Return Creating Stocks

When you invest in dividend stocks you need also look at internal return rates. The most popular ratios are return on equity and return on investment.

A company that has a big return on equity and also low debt ratios means that the high ratio was not created by taking debt and boosting earnings. Great for us investors; we own a piece of a high income generating company.

If the company can scale up its sales by taking more debt and issuing new shares, our return could boost. That's also one reason why I look at low debt with good return on equity ratios. If the company also do stock buybacks and hiked dividends, great!

My experience is that no companies fulfill everything. It's no shame when a company suffers and do not meet every optimum value. Each business is volatile and risky.

I've tried to create a screen, based on some return figures. Below are my 8 favorites. At the end of this article, you can find a list with 16 additional stocks.

These are my main criteria:
- Midcap+
- Forward P/E under 15
- Operating Margin over 15 percent
- Debt-to-equity under 1
- Return on Equity 15%+
- Payout half of profits
- Mid-digit Earnigns growth forecasts

8 high return creating stocks, low debt and price ratios included are...

14 Technology Dividend Stocks With Huge Potential To Pay Much Higher Dividends

Technology dividend stocks with low payout ratios and debt figures originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Today I would like to go forward with my article serial about low leveraged stocks from several sectors with currently small dividend payouts. I will discover some of the greatest low leveraged technology stocks on the market with also low dividend payout ratios.

My criteria are still a low dividend payout ratio of less than 20 percent as well as a debt-to-equity ratio under 0.5. In order to get only higher capitalized stocks, I decided to choose only those companies with a market cap of more than USD 2 billion.

Fourteen shares fulfilled these criteria of which eleven got a buy or better rating.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 22, 2013

The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex dividend dates.

The ex dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex date on the next trading day.

In total, 16 stocks go ex dividend - of which 3 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.68%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the upcoming week.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Intersections Inc.	INTX	177.93M	17.00	1.72	0.53	8.11%
Pan American Silver Corp.	PAAS	2.07B	-	0.77	2.26	3.66%
Atmos Energy Corporation	ATO	3.77B	17.07	1.46	1.01	3.36%
FirstMerit Corporation	FMER	3.63B	17.81	1.42	6.16	2.79%
HollyFrontier Corporation	HFC	9.25B	5.91	1.48	0.45	2.62%
Symantec Corporation	SYMC	18.30B	24.77	3.33	2.63	2.28%
Assurant Inc.	AIZ	4.27B	11.04	0.89	0.49	1.82%
Dunkin' Brands Group, Inc.	DNKN	4.66B	36.83	13.14	6.88	1.76%
Robert Half International Inc.	RHI	5.13B	22.14	5.95	1.24	1.70%
Old Line Bancshares Inc.	OLBK	89.93M	12.87	1.20	2.37	1.22%
Apollo Global Management, LLC	APO	3.91B	8.00	3.70	1.06	0.98%
Guaranty Bancorp	GBNK	240.52M	19.88	1.30	3.49	0.87%
LSB Financial Corp.	LSBI	37.58M	13.88	0.95	2.47	0.83%
Haverty Furniture Companies	HVT	574.87M	28.18	2.11	0.81	0.62%
Hecla Mining Co.	HL	1.13B	-	0.85	3.49	0.27%
Radian Group Inc.	RDN	2.26B	-	2.51	3.10	0.08%

Next Week's 20 Top Yielding Large Cap Ex-Dividend Stocks

The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex dividend dates.

The ex dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks Between August 19 - 25, 2013. In total, 95 stocks go ex dividend - of which 30 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.93%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
British American Tobacco plc	BTI	101.88B	16.87	9.55	4.29	5.40%
Transocean Ltd.	RIG	16.92B	10.26	1.08	1.82	4.77%
Thomson Reuters Corporation	TRI	28.88B	29.00	1.73	2.24	3.74%
HSBC Holdings plc	HBC	204.96B	13.37	1.18	3.87	3.61%
CA Technologies	CA	13.75B	13.28	2.44	2.97	3.27%
Johnson & Johnson	JNJ	251.10B	19.86	3.61	3.59	2.95%
Intercontinental Hotels Group	IHG	10.16B	15.87	32.96	5.54	2.84%
Invesco Ltd.	IVZ	14.39B	19.19	1.76	3.28	2.81%
Carnival Corporation	CCL	28.30B	18.92	1.22	1.85	2.74%
Carnival plc	CUK	29.64B	19.81	1.27	1.93	2.62%
Applied Materials Inc.	AMAT	18.79B	-	2.73	2.49	2.56%
Target Corp.	TGT	44.04B	16.10	2.67	0.60	2.51%
Marathon Petroleum	MPC	22.54B	7.11	1.88	0.25	2.40%
AFLAC Inc.	AFL	28.16B	8.41	2.06	1.11	2.31%
Symantec Corporation	SYMC	18.29B	24.75	3.33	2.63	2.29%
Marathon Oil Corporation	MRO	24.32B	15.43	1.28	1.48	2.22%
Archer Daniels Midland	ADM	24.70B	20.36	1.30	0.27	2.04%
Hershey Co.	HSY	21.31B	29.74	19.15	3.12	2.04%
Limited Brands, Inc.	LTD	17.07B	22.72	-	1.61	2.03%
Cummins Inc.	CMI	23.46B	16.64	3.50	1.39	2.00%