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The Motley Fool December 27, 2011 Dan Newman |
How These Companies Earned a 22,000% Return A dollar invested in lobbying Congress can give a company fantastic returns. |
CFO July 1, 2005 Don Durfee |
Out of Exile The tax cut on foreign earnings only seems restrictive. But some companies remain wary. |
The Motley Fool January 2, 2004 Roy Lewis |
Dividends vs. Salary for Businesses C- and S-type corporations can save taxes, depending on how they classify compensation. |
The Motley Fool June 29, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Come Home, Dear Cash Rooting for a repatriation holiday. Big businesses have tons of cash, yet most of it is parked overseas. Worse, they have every incentive to keep it there. |
Knowledge@Wharton June 4, 2003 |
Bush's Dividend Tax Cut: Glass Half Empty or Half Full? The final tax-cut bill the president signed into law at the end of May did not eliminate dividend taxes, but reduced the dividend tax to 15%, from a high of 38.6%, for investors in the top tax bracket. Is that enough to provide the benefits advocates had predicted? |
The Motley Fool February 4, 2008 Todd Wenning |
Enjoy Your Dividends While You Can With 2008 possibly being the last year of broad-based dividend growth across the S&P, as well as the last opportunity for Congress to extend the 2003 Bush tax cuts, big changes may be around the corner for your dividends. |
The Motley Fool July 21, 2011 Todd Wenning |
What Does IBM Do With Its Free Cash? Let's find out whether it's a good steward of your capital. |
The Motley Fool February 22, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson |
Total Gives Something Back The French oil giant is not only well-diversified but also keenly focused on shareholders' interests. |
BusinessWeek August 13, 2009 William Lazonick |
The Buyback Boondoggle Companies spend lavishly on share repurchases, slowing innovation and job creation. |
The Motley Fool June 2, 2005 Chris Cather |
The Buyback Cash Cow Companies are flush with cash on their balance sheets, and stock buybacks are increasing. |
BusinessWeek December 27, 2004 Foust et al. |
The Cash Heads Home For a one-time tax break, companies could repatriate $300 billion next year. But what will they do with it? |
BusinessWeek April 12, 2004 Howard Gleckman |
Is Kerry's Jobs Proposal Jinxed? Rejiggering foreign taxes is politically savvy, but it won't help unemployment much |
Knowledge@Wharton Siegel, Metrick & Gompers |
A Simple Solution to Stock Market Woes: Kill the Corporate Dividend Tax The authors argue that a simple solution to restoring investor confidence while boosting economic growth would be to eliminate one of the most detrimental taxes in the U.S. economy -- the corporate dividend tax. |
The Motley Fool July 29, 2005 Richard Gibbons |
Share Buybacks Aren't All Equal In the right circumstances -- when a company has excess capital and undervalued shares -- share repurchases are great for shareholders. But if the company is repurchasing overvalued shares, the buyback can actually be a sign of poor management. |
The Motley Fool March 7, 2006 |
Foolish Fundamentals: Payout Ratios Here is how to figure out how much a company pays out in dividends to its shareholders. |
Knowledge@Wharton December 18, 2002 |
Analyzing Likely Tax Cuts in 2003: Can Bush Kickstart the Economy? When Congress returns from the holiday break, President Bush is expected to unveil his plan for using tax cuts to stimulate the economy. But would the proposals under discussion provide the kind of short-term economic boost the White House says the country needs? |
The Motley Fool March 31, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Uncle Sam Double-Dips on Dividends Taxation of dividends: it's not what you earn that counts -- it's what you keep. |
The Motley Fool January 16, 2007 Chuck Saletta |
All the Money in the World By investing in the foreign firms that benefit from America's outrageous tax laws, you can profit, too. |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2003 Susan L. Hirshman |
Playing the Dividend Tax Cut The proposed elimination of double taxation on dividends has got many a client and advisor alike wondering: "Should I dump munis and start loading up on dividend-generating stocks?" The prudent financial advisor's response should be, "Not yet." |
The Motley Fool May 27, 2004 Nathan Parmelee |
Value Line's Wild Ride A large one-time dividend distribution has given investors an up-and-down ride lately. Or has it? |
InternetNews October 25, 2004 Roy Mark |
Bush Signs Tech Tax Break President Bush signed into law late Friday $136 billion in corporate tax breaks, including a one-year reduction from 35 percent to 5.25 percent on foreign profits for U.S. multinationals. |
The Motley Fool September 13, 2006 |
Foolish Fundamentals: Payout Ratios If you're an investor interested in dividends, you should understand the dividend payout ratio. |
The Motley Fool January 12, 2010 Chuck Saletta |
One Way to Double Your Returns Reinvesting your dividends is a simple way to juice your returns. |
The Motley Fool November 30, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Dueling Fools: Buybacks Aren't dividends a form of surrender? Isn't a company simply shrugging its shoulders and passing the buck when it distributes owned or leveraged greenbacks? The buyback's the thing. |
The Motley Fool November 30, 2006 Ralph Casale |
Dueling Fools: Dividends Investing is generally fraught with future promise. Dividends can be an island of stability in a turbulent market, helping investors achieve long-term outsized gains. |
The Motley Fool January 7, 2004 Jeff Hwang |
Duke's Dividend Stays Put Management reins in holdings and puts forth modest growth strategy. |
BusinessWeek January 23, 2006 David Henry |
The Dirty Little Secret About Buybacks All those share repurchases are doing investors little good. Here's why. |
The Motley Fool September 22, 2010 Rich Duprey |
Does Big Borrowing Maximize Value? How smart is it for companies to run up their debt loads to buyback shares or pay dividends? |
BusinessWeek November 4, 2010 Roben Farzad |
Why IBM Is Buying Back So Many of Its Shares Big Blue is spending billions on buybacks, seeing its stock as undervalued |
The Motley Fool February 19, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
When Too Much Cash Is Bad Even though cash allows companies to act quickly, there are other things they can do with their cash to be more productive. |
The Motley Fool August 17, 2005 |
Dividends Taxed Twice Dividends aren't perfect, but they can serve you well. |
Reason Aug/Sep 2009 Veronique de Rugy |
Destroying Jobs in Order to Save Them: Obama's Corporate Tax "Reforms" Make a Bad Situation Worse. Instead of making the corporate tax system worse, why not reform it? Why not avoid old protectionist tricks such as Buy American provisions and instead let U.S. firms compete abroad without the chains of the U.S. tax code? |
CFO March 1, 2009 Randy Myers |
Taxed to the Max Hefty tax rates continue to penalize U.S. companies, and the calls for reform are growing louder. |
CIO May 12, 2009 Stephanie Overby |
The Truth About Obama's "Tax on Outsourcing" Misconceptions about President Barack Obama's plan to close overseas business tax loopholes abound. CIO.com sets the record straight about the five most common misperceptions. |
BusinessWeek October 8, 2007 James Mehring |
Payouts: Buying Trouble Down The Line More money is going to shareholders in the form of dividends. The trend could have important long-run implications for the economy. |
The Motley Fool October 26, 2005 Steven Mallas |
IBM's in the Market The wise thing here is to buy, hold, and reinvest all dividends. With the sale of the company's PC business and an opportunity for video-game gold with the company's deal to supply chips to Microsoft's Xbox 360, perhaps Big Blue will see better times ahead. |
The Motley Fool January 26, 2006 Chuck Saletta |
Get Raises for Doing Nothing There is a way to get paid increasing amounts of money for doing absolutely nothing. By buying shares of stock and becoming a partial owner of companies that pay and have regularly raised their dividends and look likely to continue that trend, you can be in just that enviable position. |
The Motley Fool December 27, 2005 |
Foolish Fundamentals: Enterprise Value Don't overlook debt and cash when you're valuing a stock. |
The Motley Fool February 3, 2005 Rich Smith |
Northrop, This Way and That The defense contractor reports strong earnings, but questionable stock buybacks. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Jul/Aug 2006 Richard S. Lehman |
Inbound Investments U.S. commercial real estate professionals should become familiar with the tax benefits available to inbound international real estate investors. |
The Motley Fool February 29, 2008 Todd Wenning & James Early |
Don't Kill Our Dividends In May 2003, President Bush signed into law the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act, which reduced the tax rate on qualified corporate dividends and long-term capital gains to 15%. Without an act of Congress, however, JGTRRA will not last beyond 2010. |
BusinessWeek August 1, 2005 Michael Arndt |
Profits Head Homeward, But Where Are The Jobs? Regulations set by the U.S. Treasury leave companies wide leeway in how they use their repatriated profits. |
The Motley Fool April 12, 2004 Salim Haji |
Higher Pay and Lower Taxes Results from two new studies: corporate CEOs continue to get pay raises, and most corporations pay little or no taxes. |
The Motley Fool November 1, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Big Buybacks Some big companies are planning big buybacks, benefiting investors. IBM... Pfizer... etc. |
The Motley Fool October 28, 2008 Rich Duprey |
Don't Buy the Buyback Hype Are share buybacks little more than a tool for management to massage earnings? As for the benefit to individual shareholders, is it all it's cracked up to be? |
The Motley Fool April 16, 2004 Rich Smith |
Corporations Never Pay Taxes Just about everybody remains agog at news that U.S. companies aren't paying income tax. |
The Motley Fool August 24, 2005 Steven Mallas |
Insist on Heinz? Heinz told shareholders that modest growth is still in the cards. Right now, the stock is yielding over 3%. |
The Motley Fool December 8, 2005 W.D. Crotty |
Dueling Fools: Heinz Bear Earnings are stuck in neutral, debt is on the rise, and a massive "transformation" has left the company expecting only slow sales growth. H.J. Heinz is close to its 52-week low for a reason. |
The Motley Fool January 27, 2004 Rich Smith |
American Standard Still Clogged American Standard reported strong results, but debt remains a factor. |
The Motley Fool February 26, 2004 Seth Jayson |
IBM's Options Upgrade Options-based compensation for executives is rife with opportunities to fatten management wallets at the expense of shareholders Big Blue leads the way with a new and improved stock option plan. |