Colgate-Palmolive is a high-quality business, with several category-leading brands. The company has growth potential, through product innovation, its Hill’s pet food brand, and expected growth in the emerging markets.
Now might not be the best time to buy shares of Colgate-Palmolive, however, as the stock appears to be meaningfully overvalued. The company needs to prove it can generate higher levels of growth in order to justify its premium valuation.
Colgate-Palmolive does not offer a high yield, or high dividend growth. That said, investors can still count on steady dividend increases each year. The overvaluation of the stock, however, warrants a sell rating. We believe there are a number of Dividend Aristocrats that are likely to generate higher returns for shareholders over the next several years.
Tim Cook received $3 million in salary in 2019, the same as a year earlier, and a $7.67 million bonus, which was down from $12 million.
His total compensation dropped from $136 million in 2018 to $125 million last year.
David Drummond, Alphabet’s chief legal officer, just sold $77 million in stock, the third straight month his share sales topped $70 million.
Drummond has become a controversial figure since allegations emerged about inappropriate relationships with Alphabet employees
It’s the third straight month in which Drummond has dumped a significant amount of stock, following sales of over $70 million in November and again in December. The latter sale occurred just before the announced departures of co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. For all of 2018, Drummond sold about $70 million of stock, filings show.
Lockheed Martin's sustainment cost per aircraft per year has decreased four consecutive years, and more than 35% since 2015.
The F-35's reliability continues to improve, and the global fleet is averaging greater than 65% mission capable rates, with operational squadrons consistently performing near 75%
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2020 guidance.
Stephens reiterated AT&T's 2020 guidance, which includes expectations for:
Adjusted EPS in the $3.60 to $3.70 range, including HBO Max investment of $1.5 billion to $2 billion and significant share retirements.
Adjusted EBITDA margin stable with 2019 levels, including HBO Max investment, service revenue growth, merger synergies and new cost initiatives.
Free cash flow in the $28 billion range with a dividend payout ratio in the low 50% range.
Gross capital investment in the $20 billion range, reflecting downward bias from fiber build completion and the company's capital efficient one-touch wireless spectrum deployment.
Revenue growth of 1-2%, including wireless equipment revenue gains from 5G device adoption.
The acquisition will enhance Markem-Imaje's portfolio of product identification and traceability solutions with complementary and highly-demanded software and service offerings catering to a large and growing global brand protection market. Systech's cloud-based software solutions will add recurring software and service revenue to Markem-Imaje's business mix. The combination of Systech and Markem-Imaje's software and service offerings will provide a scaled-up software and service organization that will drive growth and efficiency by cross-leveraging each company's respective channels and global service infrastructure.
Delivers Strong Q3 Performance and Increases EPS and Cash Flow Guidance
Beer Business Depletion Growth Accelerates; Achieves ~8% Import Depletion Growth
Fiscal 2020 Guidance Assumptions:
Beer: net sales growth of 7 - 8% and operating income growth of 8 - 9%
Wine and Spirits: net sales and operating income decline of 8 - 10%
Interest expense: approximately $430 million
Tax rate: reported 97% to 99%, reflecting fiscal 2020 year to date Canopy fair value tax benefit, comparable excluding Canopy equity earnings impact approximately 18%
Weighted average diluted shares outstanding: approximately 195 million; assumes no additional share repurchases for fiscal 2020
Operating cash flow: $2.2 - $2.4 billion
Capital expenditures: $700 - $800 million, including approximately $560 million targeted for Mexico beer operations expansion activities
Free cash flow: $1.5 - $1.6 billion
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General Dynamics is a high-quality business, with a long history of growth. Geopolitical risk remains a constant, which gives the company a long runway of growth going forward.
General Dynamics is a shareholder-friendly company, and should continue returning significant cash to shareholders through buybacks and dividends.
While the valuation has certainly improved, the stock is still trading slightly above fair value. This is expected to limit the stock’s annual returns over the next five years.
Combined with the expected growth slowdown in 2019, we view General Dynamics as a strong holding for dividend growth but believe investors should wait for a better opportunity before initiating a position.
Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) today announced that it will redeem all of the outstanding 4.95% notes due February 11, 2047 (the “Notes”) in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Notes and the related indenture and delist the Notes from the Taipei Exchange on February 11, 2020 (the “Redemption Date”) and that it has caused notice of redemption to be given to each holder of the Notes in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Notes and the related indenture.