4 Dividend Stocks With Over A Billion Refreshed Share Buyback Programes

Dividends are great and a good possibility to give money back to shareholders but you can do the same via share buyback programs. 

Latest is also a very tax-effective way to buy own shares back and boost or support the stock price.

Below, you can find 4 great dividend stocks that have announced recently to buy own shares back in an amount of more than a billion US-Dollar. 

Over the longer-period, this shareholder friendly process should fuel and support the stock price.

4 Stocks with bigger share buyback programs, recently announced

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 26, 2013

The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex dividend dates.

The ex dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex date on the next trading day.

In total, 155 stocks go ex dividend - of which 86 yield more than 3 percent. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the current week.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
PG&E Corp.	PCG	18.65B	20.09	1.34	1.22	4.31%
TransCanada Corp.	TRP	31.26B	21.68	2.05	3.80	4.03%
Avalonbay Communities Inc.	AVB	16.74B	82.01	1.96	13.50	3.30%
The Dow Chemical Company	DOW	46.39B	18.89	2.41	0.82	3.27%
Edison International	EIX	15.32B	11.55	1.64	1.23	2.87%
Fifth Third Bancorp	FITB	15.48B	9.39	1.17	3.85	2.66%
U.S. Bancorp	USB	68.01B	12.55	1.95	5.41	2.49%
Host Hotels & Resorts Inc.	HST	13.25B	94.32	1.85	2.34	2.46%
Boston Properties Inc.	BXP	16.29B	27.14	3.00	8.31	2.43%
Deere & Company	DE	32.52B	9.67	3.79	0.85	2.42%
Agrium Inc.	AGU	12.86B	9.47	1.76	0.78	2.32%
Xerox Corp.	XRX	12.69B	11.09	1.08	0.58	2.23%
Illinois Tool Works Inc.	ITW	35.07B	14.83	3.43	2.07	2.15%
St. Jude Medical Inc.	STJ	15.18B	25.22	3.95	2.79	1.87%
Mondelez International, Inc.	MDLZ	57.31B	29.96	1.82	1.63	1.75%
Western Digital Corp.	WDC	15.39B	16.58	1.95	1.00	1.55%
Stryker Corp.	SYK	26.77B	23.77	3.11	3.05	1.50%
Humana Inc.	HUM	15.17B	10.21	1.62	0.38	1.13%
Agilent Technologies Inc.	A	17.49B	19.25	3.65	2.56	0.93%
Morgan Stanley	MS	52.02B	38.96	0.84	1.52	0.73%

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Warren Buffett’s Latest Stock Picks And His Biggest Portfolio Holdings

Warren Buffett’s latest dividend stock picks and his big portfolio picture originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 

Everybody loves Warren Buffett and when he releases his portfolio statements, all investors jump on this paper and try to figure out what he is doing.

In this article I will summarize the latest stock buys and sells of Warren Buffett's Bershire Hathaway and his latest portfolio overview.

Within the recent quarter, Warren made only 13 trades of which nine come from the long side. He bought two new companies and increased seven additional stock holdings in his portfolio. The new stocks were Dish Network and Suncor Energy.

The only stake he sold completely was the newspaper publisher Gannett.  Kraft Foods, Moody’s and Mondelez were reduced within the recent quarter.

Nothing changed much in Warren's Portfolio

In total, Warren did not change much. The stock with the highest influence to his portfolio pocket change was the bank U.S. Bancorp. The Oracle of Omaha increased the position by 27.37 percent which resulted in an portfolio impact of 0.69 percent.

You can find a full list of his latest transactions below. Ten of his 13 latest stock moves pay dividends and the yields are between 0.33 and 3.84.

Warren Buffett concentrates money on big dividend companies

Back to Warren’s biggest portfolio positions. Warren concentrates most of his wealth on four assets: Wells Fargo, Coca Cola, IBM and American Express. These fantastic four represent around 67 percent of his full portfolio value. On the attached list, you can see more details about his 20 biggest stock positions. Financial Services, Consumer defensive stocks and technology are the biggest sector in which Warren Buffett loves to invest.

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These 42 Stocks Planning To Pay More Dividends

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Last week, around 42 companies announced a high dividend. I published all stocks with dividend growth from the recent week in the attached dividend list. In average, stocks from the list of the latest dividend growth stocks have increased their dividend payments by 15.51 percent.

It’s always good to see how the dividend growth strategy works. Some of the dividend growers have raised their payments forty times and more. The biggest names come from the oil and gas sector. Eni and Total are the two biggest stocks followed by the British spirit maker Diageo.

Five of the results have a double-digit dividend yield and seven yielding above five percent. Analysts and brokerage firms recommend more than half, 26 in total, of the dividend growth stocks.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 27, 2013

The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex dividend dates.

The ex dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex date on the next trading day.

                                                                                                                                                      

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks June 27, 2013. In total, 28 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.49%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Liberty Property Trust	LRY	4.24B	35.02	1.97	6.10	5.32%
CBL & Associates Properties	CBL	3.41B	30.55	2.54	3.23	4.36%
Air Products & Chemicals Inc.	APD	19.72B	19.04	3.10	1.97	3.00%
Republic Services, Inc.	RSG	12.14B	22.17	1.57	1.49	2.81%
CubeSmart	CUBE	2.10B	-	2.12	7.05	2.79%
American Eagle Outfitters, Inc.	AEO	3.49B	14.60	2.89	1.01	2.76%
Cardinal Health, Inc.	CAH	15.90B	13.92	2.33	0.16	2.59%
Ingredion Incorporated	INGR	4.90B	11.18	1.97	0.75	2.40%
Dell Inc.	DELL	23.48B	12.67	2.19	0.41	2.38%
Choice Hotels International Inc.	CHH	2.28B	19.89	-	3.27	1.87%
Mondelez International, Inc.	MDLZ	51.06B	28.91	1.60	1.45	1.82%
EMC Corporation	EMC	49.72B	19.23	2.19	2.26	1.69%
AmTrust Financial Services, Inc.	AFSI	2.30B	11.10	1.96	1.14	1.63%
State Street Corp.	STT	29.46B	15.04	1.45	10.03	1.60%
HCC Insurance Holdings Inc.	HCC	4.18B	10.32	1.17	1.64	1.56%
Raymond James Financial Inc.	RJF	5.86B	18.25	1.69	1.30	1.32%
Wolverine World Wide Inc.	WWW	2.51B	32.47	3.73	1.28	0.92%

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