The company has already trimmed back its dividend forecast this year, and dividend cuts often beget more dividend cuts.
If you do wish to account for this, enter the value of the dividend payment with a negative sign on the date a stock goes ex-dividend, and add the number back in when the dividend is received.
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Calling the dividend back into question would punish RIG shareholders, not on the company itself.
Furthermore, we expect that JPM will begin to increase the dividend back to more historically normal levels in the coming quarters.
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Lastly, the earnings call would be the time to make an announcement on cash use, either a buy back or a dividend, should Apple decide to do this.
What began as a way to preserve cash when markets dried up a few years ago has become a means of freeing up money to fund expansions, buy back stock and support dividend payouts at a time of lackluster sales growth and shrinking profit margins.
Why would he buy back stock or pay a dividend from money that would hurt their operations?
Cablevision reported solid results for 2010, a year in which it bought back shares, boosted its dividend, and sold off its Madison Square Garden unit.
There is also the concern that if Apple pays a dividend or buys back stock, the company is worried about its share price, instead of the business.
Back in the day when dividend taxes were even higher than they are set to be in 2013, some corporate chieftains got very good at retiring shares.
Citigroup, meanwhile, saw the Fed block its capital-return plan, just as it did in 2011 to BofA, which did not even propose raising its dividend or buying back stock in 2012.
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In a statement, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said he was pleased that the bank would continue to raise its dividend and buy back shares, and he predicted continued growth for the bank.
JPMorgan has said it will continue to buy back more stock and increase dividend modestly while simultaneously building its capital to a target Basel 3 Tier 1 Capital of 9% by the end of 2012.
Paying back Berkshire would save Goldman hefty dividend payments of 10% a year on the investment.
The cut has helped bring dividends and dividend-paying stocks back in vogue.
Given the huge risks Merck is facing, it may be time for the company to consider giving even more money back to investors as a cash dividend.
Now that the panic selling is over, many investors have been tempted to get back into the trusts, since dividend yields have spiked to enticingly high levels.
Colgate also has the added benefit of being a defensive stock in case the autumn broad market rally cools, in addition to a decent 2.8 percent annual dividend yield to fall back on.
Buying back shares and raising its quarterly dividend 25% is a signal that Merrill's management feels confident about growth targets, though analysts said it could also indicate that Merrill sees those actions as better alternatives than a big acquisition.
When a company buys back stock instead of paying a dividend, the stock value appreciates by the like amount of the dividend and long-term shareholders get a 50% savings on their tax bill (assuming a 40% ordinary income tax rate versus a 20% long term capital gains rate).
Adequate cash reserves can help fund research and development, make dividend payments, buy shares back, entice buyout offers or even acquire other firms.
And then when we declare a dividend and move those funds back off shore and out of Argentina, there is another 0.6% transaction fee.
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They already started paying a dividend, and keep buying back stock.
Apple pays no dividend and it rarely buys back its shares.
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Perhaps Best Buy would be better off using the money it spends on training to reward shareholders by increasing its paltry 0.6% dividend yield or by buying back stock.
Until the reduction in the tax on dividends, it was economically inefficient for companies to pay dividends as opposed to buying back stock, because the tax on dividend payments was significantly higher than the capital gains tax.
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