The result: the more of your income from gains and dividends, the lower your effective tax rate (ETR).
Below is a long-term dividend history chart for ETR, which the report stressed as being of key importance.
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Below is a three month price history chart comparing the stock performance of ETR, versus CIG and ELP.
And interpreting what a specific ETR means requires a clear understanding of both the tax and income measures used.
Include regressive payroll taxes and their ETR jumps to 12.1 percent, about 9 percentage points less than the highest income households.
Other competitors in the utilities sector include: Entergy (ETR), El Paso Electric Company (EE), and Constellation Energy (CEG).
The report noted that among the components of the Dow Jones Utility Average, ETR shares displayed both attractive valuation metrics and strong profitability metrics.
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Among those in the top 0.1 percent, people who get less than 10 percent of their income from investments pay an average ETR of 26 percent.
Among the largest underlying components of DVY, in trading today Lorillard Incorporated ( LO) is up about 0.6%, and Entergy ( ETR) is up by about 0.7%.
Add their (relatively modest) share of corporate income and estate taxes, and their ETR is only slightly higher 12.6 percent, or about half that for the top 20 percent.
The lower taxes on investment income mean that many high-income taxpayers face a lower ETR than middle- and upper-middle-income people who get almost all of their income from working.
The differences in how they do this can be seen by comparing two attractive companies in the sector: Entergy Corp. ( ETR) and PPL Corp. ( PPL).
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According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, ETR makes up 6.23% of the Utilities HOLDRS ETF ( AMEX: UTH) which is trading up by about 2.3% on the day Thursday.
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Among the largest underlying components of DVY, in trading today Lorillard Incorporated ( NYSE: LO) is down about 2.4%, VF Corporation ( NYSE: VFC) is off about 4.4%, and Entergy Corporation ( NYSE: ETR) is lower by about 2.3%.
Among the largest underlying components of DVY, in trading today Lorillard, Inc. ( NYSE: LO) is up about 1.1%, VF Corp. ( NYSE: VFC) is up about 2.3%, and Entergy Corp. ( NYSE: ETR) is higher by about 1%.
Among the largest underlying components of DVY, in trading today Lorillard, Inc. ( NYSE: LO) is trading flat, Lockheed Martin Corp. ( NYSE: LMT) is off about 0.2%, and Entergy Corp. ( NYSE: ETR) is lower by about 1%.
Among the largest underlying components of DVY, in trading today Lorillard, Inc. ( NYSE: LO) is off about 0.4%, Lockheed Martin Corp. ( NYSE: LMT) is down about 0.8%, and Entergy Corp. ( NYSE: ETR) is lower by about 0.8%.
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Among the largest underlying components of DVY, in trading today VF Corporation ( NYSE: VFC) is up about 0.6%, Entergy Corporation ( NYSE: ETR) is up about 3%, and Kimberly Clark Corporation ( NYSE: KMB) is up by about 0.5%.
Among the largest underlying components of DVY, in trading today Lorillard, Inc. ( NYSE: LO) is up about 0.3%, Lockheed Martin Corp. ( NYSE: LMT) is down about 1.8%, and Entergy Corp. ( NYSE: ETR) is up by about 0.2%.
Among the largest underlying components of DVY, in trading today V F Corporation ( NYSE: VFC) is up about 1.8%, Entergy Corporation ( NYSE: ETR) is trading flat, and Kimberly Clark Corporation ( NYSE: KMB) is higher by about 0.8%.
Among the largest underlying components of DVY, in trading today V F Corporation ( NYSE: VFC) is trading flat, Entergy Corporation New ( NYSE: ETR) is down about 2.3%, and Kimberly Clark Corporation ( NYSE: KMB) is lower by about 2.1%.
Giuliani Partners has advised the likes of insurer Aon (nyse: AOC - news - people ), CB Richard Ellis, the real estate services firm, and Entergy (nyse: ETR - news - people ), the giant New Orleans utility.
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Mario Draghi (European Central Banker) is trying to create these similar type mechanisms to protect their economy, and so you look at a lot of European large cap names like BASF ( ETR:BAS) and Siemens ( SI) trading under 11 and a half times.
Within the top quintile, for example, people who get less than a tenth of their income from those sources face an ETR of nearly 21 percent, compared with an ETR under 12 percent for those who get more than two-thirds of their income from investments (see graph).
For the past 25 years he served as Senior Research Scientist at ETR Associates in California, USA. Over his professional career, he published the most definitive systematic reviews on the effectiveness of sex, relationships and HIV education in schools and is widely recognised as the leading world expert on sex, relationships and HIV education curriculum standards.
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