S&P 500 Buybacks & Dividends

Corporate Finance Briefing: S&P 500 Buybacks & Dividends

Yardeni Research, Inc.

August 26, 2019

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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.

1000

S&P 500 BUYBACKS (billion dollars, annualized)

Buybacks & Dividends

800 Actual x 4 (823.2) 4-Quarter Sum (823.2)

600

1000 Q1

800 600



400

400

200

200

0

0

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

Source: Standard & Poor's.

Figure 2.

500

S&P 500 DIVIDENDS (billion dollars, annualized)

450

500 Q2

450

400

400

350

350

4-Quarter Sum (469.1)

300

300



250

250

200

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

Source: Standard & Poor's.

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Figure 3.

250

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

200

250 Q1

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

Source: Standard & Poor's.

Figure 4.

140

S&P 500 DIVIDENDS (billion dollars, quarterly)

120

100

140

Q2

120

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

Source: Standard & Poor's Corporation.

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Figure 5.

3250

S&P 500 DIVIDENDS & BUYBACKS 3000 (trillion dollars, annualized)

2750

Buybacks

2500

Dividends

2250

S&P 500 Index

2000

3.0 Jul

2.5

2.0



1750 1500 1250 1000

1.5 Q1

1.0

750

500

Q2

.5

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

Source: Standard & Poor's.

Figure 6.

1000

S&P 500 BUYBACKS (billion dollars, annualized)

800

1000

Q1

800

600

600

400

400

200

200

0

0

13

13

12

S&P 500 FORWARD EARNINGS YIELD & CORPORATE BOND YIELD (percent)

12

11

11

10

S&P 500 Forward Earnings Yield* (6.2)

10

9

BoA Merrill Lynch AA-AAA

9

8

Corporate Bond Yield (3.4)

8

7

7

6

8/23

6

5

5

4

3

4

Jul

3

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

* 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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