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....

Here Is How Commodities Performed Over The Past 10 Years

Don't worry about the big decrease of the commodity prices. The main reason in my view is that the world economy is slowing down while commodity producer have spend billions of money to wide their production. They searched and explored new mines and increased their output.

As a result we see a massive price decline. But if you believe in long-term growth, you should know the cyclic of the commodity sector.

Here you can see the price fluctuations of the past decade...

10 Year Commodity Return (click to enlarge)

16 Stocks With Potential To Double Dividends Soon

Dividend stocks can be the foundation of a great retirement portfolio. Dividend payments not only put money in your pocket, which can help hedge against any downward moves in the stock market, but they're usually a sign of a financially sound company. 

Dividends also give investors a painless opportunity to reinvest in a stock, thus boosting future payouts and compounding gains over time. Yet not all income stocks live up to their full potential. 

Utilizing the payout ratio, or the percentage of profits a company returns in the form of a dividend to its shareholders, we can get a good bead on whether a company has room to increase its dividend. Ideally, we like to see healthy payout ratios between 50% and 75%. 

Here are three income stocks with payout ratios currently below 50% that could potentially double their dividends within the following years.

Each of the results has fulfilled the following criteria:

- Double Digit EPS Growth For The Next Five Years
- Sales Growth Over 5% Over The Recent Half Decade
- Positive Dividend Payments
- Payout Ratio Below 30%
- Debt/Equity Under 0.2


These are the results...

14 High Yielding Dividend Investments Qualified As Safe Heaven

With the S&P 500 down nearly 7% in the last three weeks alone, you can’t be blamed for wanting to throw up your hands and sell all your stocks. That's a stupid idea in my view.

You need to stay disciplined. If you are a long-term investor, sell-offs shouldn't care you because you have studied the long-term fundamentals and persectives of your investment and nothing chageged, you don't need to act.

If you have a long time horizon and you mainly hold dividend-paying US companies your are on the smartest side of the market. Stocks are risky, for sure but long-term dividend growth stocks offer a smaller risk than high leveradged oil drilling companies.

Attached you will find a few Dividend Growth Stocks that might filfill the needs of high-quality dividend investing and also might be hold this rating for years to come.

These are 14 of the results...

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...