Top 10 Companies By Buyback Yield

10 Best Stocks With Buyback Yields Up To 24.9%

Investors love companies that pay dividends. But dividends aren’t the only way firms send money to shareholders. They can also buy back their own stock.

Companies that aggressively repurchase their shares tend to outperform the market. 

A portfolio made up of the 10% of stocks with the highest buyback yields, rebalanced each year, was the best performer over the long term.

It gained an average of 13.7% annually from 1927 through to the end of 2009. In comparison, the market gained 10.5% per year over the same period and stocks with the lowest 10% of buyback yields climbed only 5.9% per year.

Buybacks, also called share repurchases, are a controversial financial tool. Some companies truly have more cash then they need so they return it to shareholders by buying existing shares in the open market.

This buying support and reduction in outstanding shares helps increase the value of remaining shares, in a fairly tax efficient manner. 

However, companies may also use buybacks as a means to boost earnings per share in order to please short-term investors, analyst estimates, and executives looking to increase their bonuses. Nonetheless, the buyback trend is still going strong.

Attached I've compiled 10 of the S&P 500 stocks with the biggest Buyback Yield.

Here are the best companies by buyback yield...

20 Best Dividend Paying Restaurants

Restaurant stocks are a little risky, since they're subject to food scares, seasons and recessions, but they're fun, especially if they have dividends. 

Yet some analysts are predicting a bear market will impact restaurant stocks in the near future, since consumers cut their discretionary dining budgets when times are tight. 

The sector is on the front lines when the bear market appears. But others say the public might head toward affordable food, so restaurants with lower priced menus might do well. And, with consumer confidence in July at one of the highest points since the recovery, at 97, and unemployment claims so low, these may be signals of a healthy economy.

Making income through dividend investing involves searching for solid companies that have a good chance of increasing the dividend year after year. As the company's sales and profits grow, dividends usually grow also, and the money you make can be reinvested or used as cash. 

Attached you will find a list of all dividend payers in the restaurant business.

Here are the best dividend paying restaurants on the market...

11 Dividend Stocks For A Diversified Portfolio

Invest in the best! A great rule but hard to follow in my view. If you're an income investor looking to stabilize your portfolio, or just want a little extra cash, dividend-paying stocks are a often a great thing to own.

With interest rates still historically quite low, you can get yields that are more than three or even four times what a bank might pay. But which dividend stocks are the best?

There are many great options, but I like to look for companies with a solid track record of paying and even increasing dividends, along with some potential for share price growth.

Attached are 11 dividend stocks that are worth a look right now. Which stocks from the list do you like?

Here are the results....

13 Fastest Growing Restaurant Dividend Stocks By EPS

13 Fastest Growing Restaurant Dividend Stocks By EPS originally appeard on long-term-investments. American's restaurant operators are very competitive and offer real values for dividend investors.

Some stocks from the sector hit recently All-Time highs and they are steadily growing.

Today I would like to highlight some of the best dividend paying growth picks from the restaurant industry.

Below I've highlighted those stocks with the highest expected EPS growth for the next five years. 

Here are the 5 Top results in detail and eight summarized in a table below...

Money Raiser Of The Week: 7 Top Stocks With Fresh Dividend Growth Or Share Buybacks

Dividend growth and share buybacks are two main activities to increase the potential shareholder value and give money back to their owners. 

I like those transactions because it's a clear signal to investors which get rewarded by taking risk and borrowing money.

There is no free lunch and you might agree with me that each good managed company should raise dividends in order to satisfy investors. 

For sure some companies have no possibility to give money back to the financial market because of slipping sales and margin pressure. My answer: Those stocks are not in focus of my research!

Today I like to highlight stocks that gave investors more money via dividend growth or share buybacks within the recent week. These are some of the biggest companies:

10 Stocks Giving Investors More Money

I'm a passionate dividend investor and I also like to see my dividends growing. For sure, dividend growth is no safe bet or a strategy that makes you quick rich but it can deliver a solid return.

I've build a database with dividend growth stocks and stocks that have announced a share buyback program in order to monitor potential investment opportunities.

Each day and week, I sit down and watch that list and switch stock by stock with hopes to find the next ten-bagger that could generate millions for my portfolio.

Below is an overview of the latest dividend grower. Those stocks have raised dividends within the past week. This time, only 10 companies hiked their payments to shareholders.

The biggest fish in the pool was Philip Morris, followed by American Tower and Yum! Brands.

Big is beautiful but they also have a high debt burden in common.

Which stocks do you like?

Potential Investment Targets Of Warren Buffett - Part III

Warren Buffett sits on big cash that is growing each month. I've started an article serial that discovers potential white elephants which could be potential takeover targets for the big guru investor.

The ideas came from Bloomberg. In my view, they are a little bit abstract and far away from that you might think because they were discovered by strict criteria.

Today you can find additional 5 stocks which could be interesting for the institutional investor from Omaha.

Here you can find the first two articles with the criteria:

5 Stocks That Warren Buffett Would Love: Part II
Warren Buffett's Targets Part I

5 stocks that Warren Buffett should like are..

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On October 09, 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, 33 stocks go ex dividend - of which 10 yield more than 3 percent. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the current week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
MFA Financial, Inc.	MFA	2.72B	9.52	0.86	5.51	11.70%
Linn Energy, LLC	LINE	6.23B	-	1.47	3.41	11.54%
Sasol Ltd.	SSL	29.88B	11.40	1.98	1.64	4.61%
Kraft Foods Group, Inc.	KRFT	31.99B	17.37	7.44	1.74	3.90%
Sovran Self Storage Inc.	SSS	2.35B	38.31	2.94	9.18	2.82%
General Dynamics Corp.	GD	30.26B	-	2.57	0.97	2.60%
Accenture plc	ACN	46.47B	14.86	9.37	1.53	2.57%
Aviva plc	AV	20.04B	-	1.29	0.36	2.57%
Marsh & McLennan Companies	MMC	23.68B	18.44	3.49	1.96	2.33%
Waddell & Reed Financial Inc.	WDR	4.51B	21.44	8.01	3.62	2.13%
Yum! Brands, Inc.	YUM	32.43B	23.42	14.58	2.46	2.07%
Smith & Nephew plc	SNN	11.11B	20.25	2.85	2.66	1.69%
WPP plc	WPPGY	25.41B	20.36	2.04	1.48	1.64%
Patterson Companies Inc.	PDCO	4.03B	19.66	2.89	1.11	1.60%
Masco Corporation	MAS	7.15B	93.09	20.08	0.91	1.46%
Kyocera Corp.	KYO	36.17B	42.68	1.00	2.68	1.36%
Coty Inc.	COTY	6.13B	38.10	4.10	1.32	1.25%
CLARCOR Inc.	CLC	2.76B	28.39	2.83	2.45	1.23%
Morningstar Inc.	MORN	3.56B	31.42	4.97	5.26	0.65%
Roper Industries Inc.	ROP	12.88B	26.16	3.31	4.18	0.51%

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

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 week.

In total, 75 stocks go ex dividend - of which 29 yield more than 3 percent. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the next week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
AT&T, Inc.	T	181.61B	25.57	2.11	1.42	5.33%
Sasol Ltd.	SSL	29.77B	11.44	1.98	1.65	4.63%
Verizon Communications Inc.	VZ	134.94B	87.22	3.96	1.14	4.50%
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan	POT	28.50B	12.76	2.76	3.55	4.25%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	10.80B	14.76	2.88	2.18	4.11%
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold	FCX	33.10B	12.02	1.67	1.86	3.70%
AbbVie Inc.	ABBV	74.37B	14.40	20.89	3.97	3.42%
General Mills, Inc.	GIS	30.83B	18.03	4.52	1.70	3.17%
Aviva plc	AV	19.64B	-	1.27	0.35	2.62%
General Growth Properties Inc.	GGP	18.65B	-	2.20	7.29	2.62%
General Dynamics Corp.	GD	30.16B	-	2.57	0.96	2.61%
Marsh & McLennan Companies	MMC	23.99B	18.69	3.54	1.99	2.30%
Accenture plc	ACN	47.66B	15.29	8.96	1.58	2.21%
Covidien plc	COV	28.04B	16.80	2.90	2.63	2.12%
Yum! Brands, Inc.	YUM	32.47B	23.45	14.60	2.47	2.07%
Gap Inc.	GPS	18.96B	14.95	5.48	1.17	1.97%
Smith & Nephew plc	SNN	11.12B	20.27	2.85	2.66	1.69%
Abbott Laboratories	ABT	52.37B	63.32	2.35	2.41	1.67%
WPP plc	WPPGY	25.43B	20.22	2.07	1.47	1.64%
Chesapeake Energy Corporation	CHK	17.30B	-	1.33	1.18	1.32%