Japanese Stocks Post Record Dividends & Buybacks: How to Play It
BarchartSat May 18, 8:00AM CDT
More than half of Japan's largest companies have announced plans to raise their dividends in the current fiscal year. The announcement of share buybacks is also at an all-time high, as firms announced $7.7 billion worth of share buybacks in April - a record for the first month of a fiscal year. This is all part of the normalization of both Japan's economy and corporate behavior, and it's a moneymaking trend for investors.