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The Motley Fool
July 16, 2007
Ryan Fuhrmann |
Fool on the Street: The Straight Scoop From Scotts Scotts is an interesting small-cap play on the domestic lawn and garden industry.   |
The Motley Fool
December 30, 2005
Rich Duprey |
No Green in Scotts' Winter Lawn care company expects wider losses in first quarter. But Scotts has been stretching its tendrils toward additional lines of profitable businesses, while simultaneously trying to boost shareholder value. |
The Motley Fool
July 29, 2005
Rich Duprey |
Scotts' Profits Wilt Despite the lawn care company reporting growing sales, profits dip on charges. |
The Motley Fool
April 14, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Scotts' Growing Season Is Just Beginning Lawn-care company Scotts Miracle-Gro reports wilting profits in the second quarter, but sees signs of green grass ahead. |
The Motley Fool
April 28, 2004
Seth Jayson |
Scotts Turns Grass Into Cash The green is truly growing at lawn and garden company Scotts, but earnings are outpaced by the weed-like expansion of long-term debt. |
The Motley Fool
April 9, 2007
Toby Shute |
The Definitive Boring Stock: Grass Edition Investing isn't supposed to be thrilling. Would your portfolio be greener if you opted to invest in a lawn-care company, such as Scotts? |
The Motley Fool
November 24, 2011
Neha Chamaria |
This Stock Is Best Watched From the Sidelines Scotts has lots of plans lined up for next year, from product launches to ramped-up advertising. |
The Motley Fool
June 29, 2011
Todd Wenning |
What Does Home Depot Do With Its Free Cash? Home Depot appears to be making fair use of its free cash flow, and its well-covered dividend may be attractive to income-focused investors. |
The Motley Fool
September 20, 2006
Ryan Fuhrmann |
Great Scotts Miracle-Gro Scotts may be a boring stock in an unloved industry, but it could be worth a further look. |
The Motley Fool
August 18, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
When Will Consumer Spending Really Recover? Recent quarterly earnings from several big-box retailers seem to confirm that spending money is no longer the national pastime, news that's bound to spook anyone worried about the health of the consumer sector of our economy. |
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
August 19, 2008
Ryan Fuhrmann |
Rebuilding at Home Improvement Stores? Second-quarter results suggest sunnier days may be ahead for some retailers. Read on to see who. |
The Motley Fool
August 11, 2010
David Meier |
Does Bill Miller Think Home Depot Is Attractive? The company also trades around 17 times earnings and produces plenty of cash flow to repurchase shares. |
The Motley Fool
April 26, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Big Blue's Big Buy IBM bumps its dividend 50% and boosts share buybacks. This move has all the markings of smart capital allocation that's likely to be rewarding for patient investors. |
The Motley Fool
August 15, 2006
Jim Mueller |
Sonic Goes Dutch at the Drive-In A modified Dutch tender offer will reduce outstanding shares and increase value to shareholders of the drive-in burger purveyor. |
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
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
August 21, 2010
Jordan DiPietro |
Wal-Mart Stores' Dividends May Not Last Forever If Wal-Mart Stores can illustrate that it has grown dividends over the past five years, then there's a good chance that it will continue to put shareholders first. |
IndustryWeek
September 14, 2011 |
Paying Closer Attention to the Consumer Scotts Miracle-Gro is hoping for a bountiful return on its new business model. |
The Motley Fool
March 16, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
The Wrong Stocks to Buy Right Now While the positive benefits of stocks that pay dividends are well-documented, recent experience paints a much different picture of their performance. |
The Motley Fool
August 10, 2010
Jeremy Myers |
Dividends Aren't Enough: Wal-Mart's Net Payout Yield Wal-Mart looks like a potential buy for investors searching the retail industry for a stock with a solid net payout yield. |
The Motley Fool
September 17, 2010
Dave Mock |
3 Reasons to Sell Monsanto Today Monsanto faces serious competitive threats on several fronts, threats that could continue to pressure the stock. |
The Motley Fool
August 15, 2007
Ryan Fuhrmann |
Home Depot Has Work to Do Home Depot has a little renovation to do, but don't hang up the big-box retailer yet. Look at the big picture, where there is some optimism for the future. |
The Motley Fool
April 12, 2004
Brian Gorman |
Scotts' New Turf Scotts has created a pesticide-resistant grass, potentially of use for golf course greens and fairways, but concern over its environmental impact may kill it. |
The Motley Fool
September 18, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
These Stocks Are Growing in All the Right Ways These good dividend stocks have the earnings to back up their payouts: Monsanto... McDonald's... Microsoft... Lockheed Martin... CSX... IBM... |
The Motley Fool
September 24, 2008
Selena Maranjian |
Beware of Rapidly Growing Dividends Look closely before you jump into some dividend-paying stocks. They're not always a good thing. |
The Motley Fool
August 27, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
This Could Be Better Than Earning Dividends With the market down, share buybacks don't look as dumb as they used to. |
The Motley Fool
June 14, 2011
Chris Hill |
One CEO's High Hopes Today's Motley Fool podcast: Latest retail numbers helped lift the market today... Mixed reports for Facebook... The CEO of Scotts Miracle-Gro is publicly going after the medical-marijuana market... more... |
The Motley Fool
August 26, 2011
Todd Wenning |
What Does United Technologies Do With Its Free Cash? United Technologies is a well-entrenched company with solid competitive advantages that generates plenty of free cash flow to fund buybacks and dividends. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2006
Ralph Casale |
Dueling Fools: Dividends Rebuttal The combination of cash payouts and prudent share buybacks may well be the most effective way of rewarding shareholders. |
The Motley Fool
August 10, 2010
Jeremy Myers |
Dividends Aren't Enough: Fast-Food Stocks This simple secret can reveal a company's true generosity. Here are the net payout yields for a few fast food industry companies. |
Entrepreneur
October 2006
C.J. Prince |
Buyback Bonanza Big companies with excess cash have jumped on the buyback bandwagon and are milking it for all it's worth. Should you do the same? |
The Motley Fool
February 23, 2007
Richards & Hanson |
The Case for Dividends Logic, statistics, and self-preservation suggest that you should own dividend-paying stocks. |
The Motley Fool
July 12, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Disney's Dividend Beleaguered Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner hinted that shareholders may hear about an increased dividend before the year is out. |
The Motley Fool
August 21, 2007
Emil Lee |
Are Buybacks Best? Without a doubt, share repurchases are one of the best uses of a company's excess capital. Here's why investors should get interested anytime they hear a company's planning to buy back its own shares. |
The Motley Fool
April 2, 2008
Selena Maranjian |
Lock In These High Yields Today If you invest in healthy, dividend-paying companies, you can rely on regular payments no matter what the overall market does. |
The Motley Fool
April 17, 2008
Selena Maranjian |
Will Stock Buybacks Make You Rich? The good and bad of share repurchases. |
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
August 21, 2010
Jordan DiPietro |
Monsanto's Dividends May Not Last Forever Evaluating the sustainability of dividend payments. |
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
April 8, 2008
Selena Maranjian |
Dividends That Double and Redouble Let's say you want to find dividends that double every six years. For that, you need a compound average annual growth rate of about 12.25%. Believe it or not, that's not a difficult thing to find. Take a look at these seven companies. |
The Motley Fool
March 2, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
7 Stocks With Dividends That Should Survive Don't get caught by a dividend cut. |
The Motley Fool
July 23, 2010
Todd Wenning |
Dividend Report Card: Wal-Mart Does this stock's dividend pass the grade? |
InternetNews
July 20, 2004
Erin Joyce |
Microsoft To Buy Back $30B In Stock Microsoft moved to significantly boost the value of its shares Tuesday, as it announced a quarterly dividend of 8 cents per share as well as plans to buy back up to $30 billion of its own stock over the next four years. |
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
July 2, 2011
Chris Hill |
Midyear Review: Big Questions, Big Predictions, and 3 Stocks for the Founding Fathers This week's edition of "Motley Fool Money" will cover important investment stories and attractive stocks. |
The Motley Fool
August 16, 2010
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
4 Dividend Stocks Showing You the Money Dividend checks continue to beef up in Corporate America, as more companies jack up their distribution rates. |
InternetNews
July 20, 2004
Erin Joyce |
Microsoft's $75 Billion Surprise Microsoft moved to significantly boost the value of its stock Tuesday as part of a plan to share about $75 billion with investors over the next four years. |
The Motley Fool
February 17, 2005 |
What's a Dividend? A dividend is a portion of a company's earnings that the firm pays out to its shareholders. |
