S&P 500 Buybacks & Dividends - Yardeni Research

Corporate Finance Briefing: S&P 500 Buybacks & Dividends

Yardeni Research, Inc.

October 1, 2021

Dr. Edward Yardeni

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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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Buybacks & Dividends

Figure 1.

1050

1050

S&P 500 BUYBACKS

(billion dollars, annualized)

950

950

850 Actual x 4 (795.4)

750

4-Quarter Sum (609.3)

850 Q2

750

650

650



550

550

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 2023 2024

Source: Standard & Poor's.

Figure 2.

550

S&P 500 DIVIDENDS (billion dollars, annualized)

500

550

Q3 500

450

450

400

Actual x 4 (521.2)

400

4-Quarter Sum (501.2)

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 2023 2024

Source: Standard & Poor's.

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Figure 3.

250

S&P 500 BUYBACKS (billion dollars, quarterly, nsa)

200

250

Q2

200

150

150



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 2023 2024

Source: Standard & Poor's.

Figure 4.

140

S&P 500 DIVIDENDS (billion dollars, quarterly)

120

140 Q3

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 2023 2024

Source: Standard & Poor's.

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Figure 5.

5

S&P 500 DIVIDENDS & BUYBACKS (trillion dollars, annualized)

4

Buybacks

3

Dividends

S&P 500 Index

5 Sep

4

3



2

2

Q2

1

1

Q3

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 2023 2024

Source: Standard & Poor's.

Figure 6.

1000

S&P 500 BUYBACKS (billion dollars, annualized)

800

1000

Q2

800

600

600

400

400

200

200

0

0

12

12

S&P 500 FORWARD EARNINGS YIELD & CORPORATE BOND YIELD

10 (percent)

10

8

8

6

6

9/24

4

4

BoFA Merrill Lynch AAA

2

Corporate Bond Yield (2.5)

Sep 2

S&P 500 Forward Earnings Yield* (4.8) 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 2023 2024

* 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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