Texas Instruments Increases Dividend and Buyback: An Appealing Investment?

Texas Instruments (TXN) shares were up some 4% after hours Thursday because of an announcement to increase the existing buyback by $7.5B and increase the dividend by 8%.This is another example of why Net Payout Yield stocks provide very compelling investments. A company with an expensive stock or one that has very little cash flow could never provide this much money back to shareholders. Also, it's very compelling to own a stock that increases the dividend by 8% a year, which alone is much better then Treasury yields, as the 10-year is below 3%.... Read more

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