What Stocks To Buy In 2017
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The answer is clear: Corporate tax breaks contained in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 provided the corporate cash for the vastly increased level of buybacks in 2018. First, there was a permanent cut from 35% to 21% in the tax rate on corporate profits earned in the United States. Second, going forward, the 2017 law permanently freed foreign profits of U.S.-based corporations from U.S. taxation (Under the Act, the U.S. Treasury has been reclaiming some tax revenue lost because of a tax concession dating back to 1960 that had enabled U.S.-based corporations to defer payment of U.S. taxes on their foreign profits until repatriating them).
In 2018 compared with 2017, corporate tax revenues declined to $205 billion from $297 billion, hypothetically increasing the financial capacity of U.S.-based corporations to do as much as $92 billion more in buybacks in 2018 without taking on debt. Given that from 2017 to 2018 stock buybacks by S&P 500 companies increased by $287 billion (from $519 billion to $806 billion), the reality is that, through the corporate tax cuts, the federal government essentially funded $92 billion in buybacks by issuing debt and printing money to replace the lost corporate tax revenues.
Railroad stocks have been chugging along at full speed this year, making the most of strong freight fundamentals, robust manufacturing activity, and a reviving coal market. Railroads' importance to the economy can't be understated: They haul nearly one-third of all exports, supporting economic activity worth at least $250 billion each year by moving goods across the nation. The Association of American Railroads doesn't call freight rail the \"engine that moves America\" for nothing.
For investors, the time is ripe to invest in railroad stocks, and there are plenty of good railroad stocks to choose from. Based on revenue, seven major railroads have been classified as U.S. \"Class 1.\" Among these, Grand Trunk Corporation and Soo Line Corporation are the U.S. subsidiaries of Canadian National Railway (CNI 0.85%) and Canadian Pacific Railway (CP 0.24%), respectively, and since both Canadian railroads by themselves are big enough to qualify as Class 1 railroads, I've listed them instead of their subsidiaries:
With management boosting its fiscal 2017 earnings-per-share growth guidance to a range of 8%-11% from its earlier mid-single-digit projections, investors can't go wrong making room for Canadian National in their portfolios.
CSX delivered strong Q1 numbers and projects a mid-60s operating ratio, with adjusted EPS growth of 25% for fiscal 2017. Both of those figures indicate substantial improvements over last year. And that's not all: CSX also increased its dividend by 11% and announced a share-repurchase program worth $1 billion in April, reaffirming its commitment to shareholders.
Neha Chamaria has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Canadian National Railway. The Motley Fool recommends CSX. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
With political uncertainties causing volatility in many healthcare stocks, dental stocks have been relatively steady due to the fact that much of dental care expense is borne by the patients themselves. Three stocks worthy of consideration by growth investors are Dentsply Sirona (NASDAQ: XRAY),Henry Schein (NASDAQ: HSIC), and Align Technology (NASDAQ: ALGN).
With innovations such as the CEREC 3D scanner, which enables restoration work like crowns in a single visit,and a great worldwide market share position, Dentsply Sirona is a good way for investors to participate in growth of the market. Guidance for non-GAAP EPS in 2017 is $2.80 to $2.90, giving a reasonable forward price-to-earnings ratio of about 22.
Going forward, Schein will be the beneficiary of Denstply Sirona's change in distribution strategy, picking up that company's full line of equipment, including digital dentistry tools such as the CEREC scanner. That and other growth opportunities led management to guide to 2017 EPS of $7.17 to $7.30 per share for 2017, 16% to 18% growth on a GAAP basis and 8% to 10% growthexcluding restructuring costs in 2016. The P/E based on this estimate is 25.
The growth of Align's business has steadily increased over the last year and a half. The company's top line grew 28% in 2016, and earnings per share soared 32%. First-quarter 2017 revenue blew through the company's guidance, up 30% year over year.
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FTA's Buy America Handbook, which provides grantees, manufacturers, and subcontractors and suppliers with the steps necessary to meet pre-award audit and post-delivery Buy America audit requirements, brings greater uniformity to the way the industry conducts and documents pre-award and post-delivery audits of rolling stock purchases. The handbook applies to the procurement of rolling stock used in revenue service, which includes new buses, vans, cars, railcars, locomotives, trolley cars, trolley buses, ferry boats, and vehicles used for guideways and incline planes, and intended for public transportation of passengers. It describes approaches and recommends processes for grantees as they prepare to conduct pre-award and post-delivery vehicle audits from the solicitation phase through the final acceptance of vehicles. It also includes examples of how to calculate domestic content, and verify and document compliance for all participating parties as well as sample forms and templates. The effective date of the Buy America Handbook was March 21, 2017.
After the 2017 Republican tax law, instead of higher job growth or a GDP surge, we saw corporations spending hundreds of billions of dollars buying back their own stock. The big winners were rich shareholders, CEOs, and foreign entities, not American workers.
Once the company sets the record date, the ex-dividend date is set based on stock exchange rules. The ex-dividend date for stocks is usually set one business day before the record date. If you purchase a stock on its ex-dividend date or after, you will not receive the next dividend payment. Instead, the seller gets the dividend. If you purchase before the ex-dividend date, you get the dividend.
On September 8, 2017, Company XYZ declares a dividend payable on October 3, 2017 to its shareholders. XYZ also announces that shareholders of record on the company's books on or before September 18, 2017 are entitled to the dividend. The stock would then go ex-dividend one business day before the record date.
In the original research, using 2014 diversity data, we found that companies in the top quartile for gender diversity on their executive teams were 15 percent more likely to experience above-average profitability than companies in the fourth quartile. In our expanded 2017 data set this number rose to 21 percent and continued to be statistically significant. For ethnic and cultural diversity, the 2014 finding was a 35 percent likelihood of outperformance, comparable to the 2017 finding of a 33 percent likelihood of outperformance on EBIT margin; both were also statistically significant (Exhibit 1).
Gender diversity is correlated with both profitability and value creation. In our 2017 data set, we found a positive correlation between gender diversity on executive teams and both our measures of financial performance: top-quartile companies on executive-level gender diversity worldwide had a 21 percent likelihood of outperforming their fourth-quartile industry peers on EBIT margin, and they also had a 27 percent likelihood of outperforming fourth-quartile peers on longer-term value creation, as measured using an economic-profit (EP) margin (Exhibit 2).
Executive teams of outperforming companies have more women in line roles versus staff roles. We tested the hypothesis that having more women executives in line roles (typically revenue generating) is more closely correlated with financial outperformance. We know from research, such as our Women in the Workplace 2017 report, that women are underrepresented in line roles. In our data set, this holds true even for top-quartile gender-diverse companies experiencing above-average financial performance. Yet these top-quartile companies also have a greater proportion of women in line roles than do their fourth-quartile peers: 10 percent versus 1 percent of total executives, respectively (Exhibit 3).
The penalty for not being diverse on both measures persists. Now, as previously, companies in the fourth quartile on both gender and ethnic diversity are more likely to underperform their industry peers on profitability: 29 percent in our 2017 data set.
But if you are increasingly worried about overreliance on U.S. stocks and looking to either hedge your bets or diversify into other areas of opportunity, the landscape is increasingly looking favorable for China stocks SHCOMP, +0.36% once more.
And yes, while overall growth is slowing, the nation is still expanding at a relatively brisk pace vs. the rest of the world, and one that is well within investor expectations. For calendar 2016, China posted a 6.7% rise in GDP, within the 6.5% to 7% range forecast by Beijing. And most importantly, growth in the final quarter of 2016 accelerated to 6.8% to show promise for 2017.
However, the ETF is dangerous because of its lack of diversification; about 27% of the portfolio is concentrated on these three positions, and nearly half of the fund is invested in the financial sector. To top it off, the fund comprises just 51 stocks. 59ce067264
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