Tesla’s proposed ‘dividend’ was really a proposed stock split. Here, a Tesla manufacturing plant near Gruenheide, Germany. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Text size Tesla was among the hand...
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These 10 S&P 500 Stocks Have Solid Dividends, Not Just Big Buybacks
Last week’s Income Investing column focused on shareholder yield, which combines dividends with stock buybacks, by sector. This week, Barron’s decided to drill down and look at the shareholder yields ...
Biden Proposed Stock Buyback Restrictions. What Advisors Need to Know.
This year has seen plenty of high-profile announcements of stock buybacks. Amazon enacted a $10 billion repurchase program while General Electric set its own at $3 billion. Later, Alibaba announced t...
Cannabis company that DEA is allowing to grow for research purposes to list shares on Nasdaq
Bright Green Corp., a Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based company with conditional approval from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to produce federally legal cannabis, on Tuesday filed plans to d...
RH Delivers Mixed Earnings, Announces 3-for-1 Stock Split
Text size A staircase at an RH outlet. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for RH RH stock is trading lower Wednesday morning after the home-furnishings retailer reported a mixed fiscal fourth quarter, a...
Tencent Music Stock Is Soaring After Earnings. It Can Thank Alibaba.
Text size A monitor displays Tencent Music Entertainment Group signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Chinese stocks are soaring after Alibaba a...
NerdWallet and SoFi CEOs Bought Up Stock on the Dip
Text size NerdWallet’s app Courtesy NerdWallet Shares of companies pointed at the personal-financial space have been pummeled far worse than the broader market, but their chief executives are bu...
GE Shows Why Stock Buybacks Aren’t Always as Good as Dividends
Text size GE’s net debt now amounts to 2.5 times Ebitda, compared with an average of 2 times for industrial companies in the S&P 500. Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images News that General Elec...
8 Companies That Raised Their Stock Dividends This Week
Text size Colgate-Palmolive raised its stock dividend this week. Rene Van Den Berg/Dreamstime.com Colgate-Palmolive , Dick’s Sporting Goods , and Applied Materials were among the large U.S. companies ...
Amazon’s Stock Split Follows Alphabet’s. Here’s Who’s Next.
Text size Amazon.com’s share price is likely to go from nearly $3,000 to less than $150 as a result of the split. Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg Amazon . com announced a stock split just over a month...
Amazon Announces 20-for-1 Stock Split and $10 Billion Buyback Plan
Text size Amazon shares are up more than 6% on the news in after-hours trading. Bloomberg Amazon . com shares are moving sharply higher in after-hours trading after the e-commerce and cloud-computing ...
Verizon Has Plans for Faster Growth. Stock Buybacks Are Coming Closer.
Text size Hans Vestberg, Verizon’s CEO. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Verizon Communications could be poised to deliver faster growth in profits and revenue, making possible continued dividend inc...
Rivian Stock’s Price Target Gets a Cut. There Are Too Many Headwinds.
Text size Courtesy of Rivian Electric-truck startup Rivian Automotive reports fourth-quarter earnings in about a week. One analyst cut his price target on the stock ahead of the report because there a...
Buffett: Berkshire Hathaway Finds ‘Little That Excites Us’ in the Stock Market
Berkshire Hathaway finds “little that excites us” in the stock market, CEO Warren Buffett said in his annual shareholder letter released Saturday morning. “That’s largely because of a truism: Long-ter...
AMD announces $8 billion stock buyback program
Shares of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. inched higher in after-hours trading Thursday after the chip company announced a new $8 billion buyback authorization. The new repurchase authorization is in addi...
Why Barrick Gold’s CEO Is Looking to Boost Its Copper Business
Text size Barrick aims to boost its gold production to 4.8 million ounces annually by the end of decade from 4.4 million in 2021. David Gray/AFP via Getty Images Mark Bristow, the CEO of one of the bi...
Giant U.S. Pension Bought Up EV Stocks NIO, XPeng, Li Auto, and Rivian
Text size A Nio eP9 car Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images The second-largest U.S. pension by assets bought up shares of four electric-vehicle makers as 2021 was coming to a close. Unfortunately, the...
Meta Stock Has Never Been Cheaper Since Its 2012 IPO
Text size Meta Platforms, the former Facebook, has a lower price-to-earnings ratio than other Big Tech companies. Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Images Meta Platforms ‘ stock is as cheap now as it has ever...
After Alphabet’s Stock Split, Amazon and Others Look Ripe to Split Shares
Text size Amazon, Chipotle, and others could be candidates for splitting their stocks. Noah Seelam/AFP via Getty Images Alphabet recently announced it is splitting its stock. It probably won’t be the ...
PepsiCo Posts Earnings Beat and Boosts Dividend. The Stock Rises.
Text size Joe Raedle/Getty Images PepsiCo , the soft drinks and snacks giant, reported fourth-quarter adjusted earnings of $1.53 a share on revenue of $25.3 billion, both higher than analysts’ estimat...
The stock split from Google’s parent may spark a wave, Bank of America analysts say
Stock splits usually work, and the 20-for-1 split by Google’s parent company Alphabet may spark a wave. That’s according to analysis from Bank of America, which found that companies that have announce...
BP Posts Bumper Profit and New Round of Buybacks
Text size BP Exploration Alaska headquarters Getty Images Surging oil and gas prices last year helped BP post its highest profit since 2012, allowing the company to reduce debt and announce more share...
Nvidia calls off $40 billion acquisition of Arm: report
Nvidia Corp. is giving up on its attempt to acquire chip designer Arm Ltd. from Softbank Group Corp., according to a report Monday. Nvidia NVDA, +1.68% agreed to acquire Arm for $40 billion in cash an...
Nokia Reinstates Dividend, Sets New, Long-Term Margins Target
Text size The logo of telecommunications giant Nokia before the company’s press conference in Espoo, Finland. Markku Ulander /Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty Images Nokia on Thursday reinstated its quar...
Facebook Parent Meta Ramped Up Stock Buybacks at a Bad Time
Text size Meta’s record $19.2 billion of share repurchases in the fourth quarter amounted to 2% of the company’s shares outstanding. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg picked...
Opinion: Invest in Google if you like — but that stock split isn’t a solid reason to be bullish
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Alphabet’s just-announced 20-for-1 stock split is not the bullish omen that investors are making it out to be. There are two major arguments being given for why this stock split is...
Alphabet Stock Is Soaring After an Impressive Earnings Beat
Text size Stock in Alphabet, Google’s parent, is up more than 40% over the past year. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Alphabet crushed expectations and announced plans for a 20-for-one stock split afte...
Opinion: Google is finally splitting its stock; will Amazon be next, leading to a Dow shakeup?
Alphabet Inc. is finally carving into its gargantuan stock price with a stock split, which leaves only one Big Tech company remaining with a huge per-share price despite an easy avenue to change it. A...
Google could challenge for $2 trillion market cap after earnings, stock-split news
Google parent Alphabet Inc. headed toward a couple of elusive marks Tuesday evening, after disclosing earnings and plans for a stock split: A $3,000 share price and $2 trillion market cap. Alphabet sh...
Mobile shopping company Wish’s stock gains as Foot Locker exec is named as new CEO
Wish parent company Contextlogic Inc. announced Monday that it found its new chief executive at Foot Locker Inc., and shares gained in late trading. Vijay Talwar, most recently the CEO for Foot Locker...
Why AT&T May Be Leaning Toward a Spinoff of Its Discovery Stake
AT&T may be leaning toward a straightforward spinoff of the 71% stake in the new Warner Bros. Discovery in the coming months rather than a complex “split-off,” or exchange offer. A transaction in ...
These 3 Energy Companies Should Buy Back Stock, Analyst Says
Text size High oil prices have left producers awash in cash. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Oil-and-gas companies are pumping out billions of dollars in cash because of high commodity prices. Many of them...