A good place to start is this list of the best stocks
for total shareholder return (dividends plus buybacks) which was prepared by Goldman Sachs, and some of the returns on this list are pretty impressive.
Not exact matches
Shareholders,
for their part, have gotten a three - year
total return of 67 %.
Dividends, the share of their revenues that companies pay to their
shareholders, are a big deal: Over the past century, they've accounted
for roughly half of
total returns earned by stock investors.
(Since he took the reins, Aetna (aet) has
returned a cumulative 541 % to its
shareholders, or more than three times the
total return for the S&P 500.)
(An average of country - adjusted
total shareholder return, industry - adjusted
total shareholder return, and change in market capitalization over the course of the CEOs» tenures accounted
for 80 % of the rankings» relative weightings.)
For one ranking we used a regression based on
total shareholder return (TSR) conducted by HIP Investor.
For each CEO's tenure, the researchers calculated three metrics: the country - adjusted total shareholder return (including dividends reinvested), which offsets any increase in return that's attributable merely to an improvement in the local stock market; the industry - adjusted total shareholder return (including dividends reinvested), which offsets any increase that results from rising fortunes in the overall industry; and change in market capitalization (adjusted for dividends, share issues, and share repurchases), measured in inflation - adjusted U.S. dolla
For each CEO's tenure, the researchers calculated three metrics: the country - adjusted
total shareholder return (including dividends reinvested), which offsets any increase in
return that's attributable merely to an improvement in the local stock market; the industry - adjusted
total shareholder return (including dividends reinvested), which offsets any increase that results from rising fortunes in the overall industry; and change in market capitalization (adjusted
for dividends, share issues, and share repurchases), measured in inflation - adjusted U.S. dolla
for dividends, share issues, and share repurchases), measured in inflation - adjusted U.S. dollars.
We computed a company's
total shareholder return (including dividends reinvested)
for the CEO's tenure.
The proposed rules call
for companies to report their annual
total shareholder return (TSR) over time, along with annual TSR figures
for their peer group, and to describe the relationships between their TSR and their executive compensation and between their TSR and the TSR of their peers.
By providing a lift to a stock's price, buybacks can increase
total shareholder return to target levels, resulting in more stock awards
for executives.
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Return on equity (ROE): The company's net income
for a year divided by the
total amount of
shareholder's equity.
Over this period, dividends accounted
for 31 % of the market's
total return, highlighting their importance in determining
total shareholder return.
If a company has proven that it can average a high
return on
total capital within the majority of its business operations (averaging, say, 15 % + per year
for many years) then the company can reinvest what would be dividends, and thus save the
shareholder tax.
Most businesses don't do well by «empire building», that is, growing simply
for the sake of growing without a focus on
total shareholder returns.
Our focus on identifying a stock's true economic value and our willingness to patiently own it until that value is realized means that the penny - perfect purchase or sale price does not contribute meaningfully to the
total return of the stock
for our
shareholders.
For Mr Clarke to obtain 100 per cent of the performance rights, TWE's relative
total shareholder return ranking against the peer group must be above the 75th percentile, and the compound annual growth rate of earnings per share over the performance period must be more than 15 per cent.
Although this asset class comprises less than a quarter of our
total portfolio, it significantly enhances
total investment
return for policyholders and
shareholders.
Expected
total returns for Coca - Cola
shareholders are between 10 % and 12 % a year from dividends (3 % +) and earnings - per - share growth (7 % to 9 %).
Perhaps more impressively, National Retail's average annual
total return for the past 25 years has been 14.8 %, significantly outpacing the market to provide meaningful value
for shareholders.
For example, People's United Financial currently pays a 4.4 % dividend yield, but offers
shareholders a
total return of almost 15 % because of buybacks.
Simply put, if you're not looking
for the two extra ways companies reward
shareholders in addition to just dividends, you're taking on extra risk and you're not going to maximize your
total returns.
With Caterpillar's history of increasing its dividend, its
shareholders can look forward to a substantial bump in the
total return of the stock
for as long as the shares are owned.
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For returns on which no tax is due, the penalty is $ 195 for each month or part of a month (up to 12 months) the return is late or doesn't include the required information, multiplied by the total number of persons who were shareholders in the corporation during any part of the corporation's tax year for which the return is due.&raq
For returns on which no tax is due, the penalty is $ 195
for each month or part of a month (up to 12 months) the return is late or doesn't include the required information, multiplied by the total number of persons who were shareholders in the corporation during any part of the corporation's tax year for which the return is due.&raq
for each month or part of a month (up to 12 months) the
return is late or doesn't include the required information, multiplied by the
total number of persons who were
shareholders in the corporation during any part of the corporation's tax year
for which the return is due.&raq
for which the
return is due.»
The investment objective
for EP Global Opportunities Trust plc is to provide
shareholders with an attractive real long - term
total return by investing globally in undervalued securities.
It's a big reason EL stock has delivered an annualized
total return of 21 %
for shareholders over the last decade.
Dividends contributed the majority of the
return for shareholders of this company, which increased the
total annualized rate of
return to a respectable 3.4 % per annum.
«The fund has a flexible strategy, investing in a broad opportunity set across geographic, sector, currency and credit opportunities to maximize income and
total return potential
for our
shareholders.»
If a company has proven that it can average a high
return on
total capital within the majority of its business operations (averaging, say, 15 % + per year
for many years) then the company can reinvest what would be dividends, and thus save the
shareholder tax.
«If rates rise, we would view that as a valuation headwind, and I think it would be a really tough year
for REITs in terms of
total shareholder returns if that's the case,» Lukasik observed.