(Bloomberg) -- Wirecard AG’s former boss Markus Braun is unwinding a large portion of the shares he owns in the embattled payments processor, a stake he financed by borrowing against the stock’s value, according to a person familiar with the matter.Former Chief Executive Officer Braun, who held 7% of Wirecard’s shares to rank as the company’s biggest shareholder, had funded his purchase through a 150 million-euro margin loan that was secured by the value of the underlying stock. Wirecard’s shares plunged 72% last week after billions in cash went missing, triggering a liquidation of the shares Braun had pledged as collateral, the person said, asking not to be identified because the information hasn’t been publicly disclosed.Named CEO in 2002, Braun has put tens of millions of euros of his own funds into the firm and owned 8.7 million shares of Wirecard as of June 19, according to data compiled by Bloomberg....
A lot has changed in the world over the past few months, but you wouldn’t know it from the stock market. The NASDAQ, for example, is up 11% year-to-date and recently set a new all time high. However, when it comes to dividend stocks things have definitely changed. This is due to the impact of COVID-19, which caused several companies to slash their dividends to conserve cash leaving investors in shock. Now more than ever, before jumping into a dividend stock it is prudent to carefully examine how safe it is.With this in mind, we looked for dividend stocks with strong balance sheets and cash flow generation that comfortably cover their dividend payments. We used TipRanks’ database to identify dividend stocks that have earned a “Strong or Moderate Buy” consensus rating from the analyst community. The platform steered us toward three dividend stocks that offer investors yields ranging from 6% to...
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