PKW News and Press, Invesco BuyBack Achievers ETF From 06/21/21

Invesco BuyBack Achievers ETF (PKW) - $0.1856.30-Day SEC Yield of 0.65% as of June 18.Payable Jun 30; for shareholders of record Jun 22; ex-div Jun 21. For further details see: Invesco BuyBack Achievers ETF declares quarterly distribution of $0.1856

Since offshoring contributed to the long-term disinflationary trend, it would seem to make sense that reshoring would contribute to an inflationary trend. The "reshoring will lead to higher inflation" argument revolves around differences in labor costs, which are much higher in the US...

PKW has a multi-year track record of consistently outperforming the benchmark index across different cycles. PKW’s current portfolio of stocks is dominated by names that managed to keep up the buyback momentum at a time when most US companies had stopped their buyback programs....

As the U.S. birth rate fell to a new low in 2020, it appears that COVID-19 and associated economic weakness/uncertainty has accelerated a preexisting trend of falling American fertility. If 2008-level fertility rates had persisted through 2020, 5.8 million more babies would have been ...

As COVID-19 has spread across the globe, wreaking havoc, a financial pandemic has likewise proliferated around the world. Zombie companies, weak firms persistently unable to cover their fixed expenses with operating profits, massively increased in number in 2020. But zombie compan...

Like the U.S. economy as a whole, stock buybacks are recovering from Q2, when COVID-19 roiled financial markets, but haven't yet returned to pre-pandemic levels.S&P 500 companies repurchased $101.8B of their shares in Q3 2020, up 14.8% from Q2's $88.7B but down 42.1% from Q3 2019's $175.9...

The last ice age lasted a very long time and caused a significant regression in the biological advance of life on earth. I think we are on the verge of entering into a new kind of ice age — an economic one — around the world today. Massive debt loads weigh down the e...

I've written on multiple occasions about how deficit spending ultimately hampers GDP growth by crowding out private investment. It can also weigh on GDP growth when inflows of foreign dollars go toward funding the fiscal deficit instead of buying US goods or being invested in US asset...

The dividend comeback US dividend expectations for this year are now pricing in less than a 10% decline, versus expectations of -35% at the March trough, whilst Q2 payments (from the 75% of the S&P 500 that pay them) were better than feared and flat yoy. With earnings expectations no...

I had a conversation the other day about share buybacks and insider trading. The discussion was turning around the usual pros and cons of this capital allocation method, but I decided to look more into this and see what the empirical experience we have so far suggests. Numerous studies have be...