S&P 500 Buybacks & Dividends - Yardeni Research
Corporate Finance Briefing: S&P 500 Buybacks & Dividends
Yardeni Research, Inc.
May 21, 2021
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Table Of Contents Table Of Contents
Buybacks & Dividends
3-6
Buybacks
7
S&P 1500/500/400/600 Divisors
8
Buybacks & Dividends
9
Buybacks & Dividends as % of Operating Earnings
10
S&P 500 Sectors Buybacks
11
S&P 500 Sectors Cumulative Buybacks Since Q1-2009
12
S&P 500 Sectors Dividends
13
S&P 500 Sectors Buybacks
14
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Figure 1.
1050
1050
S&P 500 BUYBACKS
(billion dollars, annualized)
950
950
850
850
Actual x 4 (522.1)
750
4-Quarter Sum (519.7)
750
650
650
550
550
Q4
450
450
350
350
250
250
150
150
50
50
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Source: Standard & Poor's.
Figure 2.
550
S&P 500 DIVIDENDS (billion dollars, annualized)
500
550
Q1
500
450
450
400
Actual x 4 (496.9)
400
4-Quarter Sum (482.0)
350
350
300
300
250
250
200
200
150
150
100
100
50
50
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Source: Standard & Poor's.
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Figure 3.
250
250
S&P 500 BUYBACKS
(billion dollars, quarterly, nsa)
200
200
150
150
Q4
100
100
50
50
0
0
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Source: Standard & Poor's.
Figure 4.
140
S&P 500 DIVIDENDS (billion dollars, quarterly)
120
140
Q1 120
100
100
80
80
60
60
40
40
20
20
0
0
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Source: Standard & Poor's.
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Figure 5.
5000
4750
S&P 500 DIVIDENDS & BUYBACKS (trillion dollars, annualized)
4500
4250
Buybacks
4000
Dividends
3750
3.0
Apr
2.5
3500
S&P 500 Index
3250
2.0
3000
2750
2500
1.5
2250
2000
1750 1500
Q4
1.0
1250
1000 750
Q1
.5
500
250
0
.0
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Source: Standard & Poor's.
Figure 6.
1000
1000
S&P 500 BUYBACKS
(billion dollars, annualized)
800
800
600
600
Q4
400
400
200
200
0
0
12
12
S&P 500 FORWARD EARNINGS YIELD & CORPORATE BOND YIELD
10 (percent)
10
8
8
6
6
5/14
4
4
BoFA Merrill Lynch AAA
2
Corporate Bond Yield (2.9)
Apr 2
S&P 500 Forward Earnings Yield* (4.7) 0
0
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
* Forward earnings (time-weighted average of consensus operating earnings estimates for current and next year) divided by S&P 500 stock price index. Source: Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S, Standard & Poor's and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
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