Moreover, green-tax revenues are being recycled in the hope of yielding the double dividend.
Higher tax revenues and lower pension spending would then bring a double dividend for the public finances.
As Milken points out in Barriers to Entrepreneurship in Emerging Domestic Markets, entrepreneurship may yield a double dividend in LMI communities.
Amit Daryanani of RBC Capital said today that Apple has the ability to double its dividend.
He also announced the company will double its dividend payout to 20 cents per share, payable to investors on April 2, 2012.
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Academics can argue whether dividends or buybacks are the better method of returning capital, Spellman says, but given the current hunger for yield he thinks it would have been really interesting if Cook had opted to double the dividend rather than just a 15% increase.
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Also on Thursday, Ford said it would double its quarterly dividend payout to 10 cents.
Despite these headline negatives, the sector has performed very well in recent months, maintaining an element of price stability while continuing their double-digit dividend yields.
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Buy back as much stock as you can afford and bump up the dividend, double digits, annually.
Their dividend yields are more than double the payout on a 10-year U.S. Treasury note.
"I'm seeing quality companies at five and six times earnings, with dividend yields at or near double digits, " he says.
The basic point being made is that dividend income in the US is double taxed.
At 3.1%, its dividend yield at the time was nearly double that of Anheuser Busch InBev.
Along with these positives, a fairly impressive dividend yield of 2.1% and double-digit earnings growth expectations make Texas Roadhouse a good pick for investors looking for both growth and income.
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Conrad thinks Duke is on track for double-digit growth and likes the 3.6% dividend yield.
Aside from the surprise profit and dividend cuts, the company also reported a net debt-to-equity ratio of 61%, double that of last year because of new loans, though Wu says much of that is for project financing.
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