…seems controversial, but critics argue that buybacks boost a company’s stock in the short term at the expense of long-term investment. In other words, a management team that is compensated…
…get the level of Company D, but that’s the company that has the most revenue, so it may be tricky. It may be old-fashioned, but I think of the assets…
…most liquid common stocks and corporate bonds issued by non-financial companies. Initial versions of the regulation left municipal bonds out completely, but some changes recently introduced by the Federal Reserve…
…the company. The implication is obvious: small companies have outperformed large companies. The largest (and most familiar) stocks have the worst performance and the smallest companies are heads and shoulders…
…will continue to grow thanks to their growing populations and burgeoning middle class. Second, the valuations are interesting compared to their historic levels and compared to other developed markets and…
…dividend. Last year, the companies in the S&P 500 earned $893.0 billion. Of those as reported earnings, those companies paid out $311.8 billion in cash dividends and spent $475.6 billion…
…to pre-recession levels. That may be good news for realtors, but new home sales are still in the tank (right axis), barely off the bottom levels seen in the recession….
…level of interest rates overall. Since the level of interest rates tells a different story, let’s strip that out and just look at the difference between the two yields, what…
…a list of the largest 500 companies, but a curated list of stocks chosen by the index committee at Standards & Poor’s. Most of the differences between the index and…
…which excludes food and energy because they are so volatile, to come in at 3.2 percent in the fourth quarter, but fall to just over two percent in the coming…
