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DirecTV Is Cheap By The Numbers and The Yields

Investors continue to ignore that massive buyback program undertaken by DirecTV (DTV) in favor of other cable and communications providers. In fact, this $31B market cap company used $1.1B to return capital to shareholder in the form of buybacks in Q4'11 alone. Now it has announced a new $6B buyback program that amounts to 20% of the outstanding stock.

Investors are clearly enamored with dividends so much that they've clamored to cable companies and wireless providers that have higher dividend yields than DirecTV. Sure those yields are nice and far exceed treasuries, but why ignore the nearly 20% yield being offered by DirecTV?

Read the full article on Seeking Alpha.


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