share buybacks

Ameriprise offers a Total Yield Stock Play with a Growing Dividend

While income investors constantly seek out stocks with growing dividend yields, they can also benefit from share buybacks.  The share buybacks present an opportunity for investors to get capital gains in addition to current income.  Currently, 80% of S&P 500 companies are buying back shares. Combine this with dividend yield and you can get a …

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Pfizer offers a Total Yield Stock Play with an Increasing Dividend Payout

While income investors constantly seek out stocks with growing dividend yields, they can also benefit from share buybacks.  The share buybacks present an opportunity for investors to get capital gains in addition to current income.  Currently, 80% of S&P 500 companies are buying back shares. Combine this with dividend yield and you can get a …

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Best Income Stocks for 2013 – Domtar Corporation (UFS)

Domtar Corporation (NYSE: UFS) engages in the design, manufacture, marketing, and distribution of fiber-based products in North America.  The forestry industry is coming through a painful period marked by low-cost competition from emerging markets and the collapse of the U.S. housing industry.  However, the industry is rebounding as more companies are back on the growth …

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Best Income Stocks for 2013 – Assurant, Inc. (AIZ)

Assurant, Inc. (NYSE: AIZ), a premier provider of specialty insurance and insurance-related products and services, announces that its board of directors has declared a quarterly dividend of $.21 per share of common stock.  The dividend will be payable on March 11, 2013 to stockholders of record as of the close of business on Feb. 25, 2013. Assurant made the Goldman …

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