S&P 500 companies: cash is constantly flowing in and out of companies

Here's How Companies Are Using 

Their Massive Piles Of Cash

"S&P 500 companies are directing 40% of their cash usage back to shareholders compared to less than 30% in the late 1990s," noted Goldman Sachs' Stuart Kaiser in a new note to clients. 

"More than half of that amount (22%) has been devoted to buybacks while 18% has been used to pay dividends. Since 2010, dividend payments have grown nearly 50% while buybacks are up 40% on a trailing four quarter basis."

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