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What we learnt this week: bumper returns mask uncertainty

Billions in dividends and buybacks are brilliant, but they largely belong to the past. And profit season isn’t providing lots of clues about the outlook. 

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Earnings season is already delivering for investors on a grand scale.

A couple of weeks after Rio Tinto showered shareholders with a $12.4 billion half-year dividend, Commonwealth Bank joined the party with $10 billion of returns, including a larger-than-expected $6 billion share buyback, and Telstra announced a $1.35 billion buyback on Thursday.

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James Thomson is senior Chanticleer columnist based in Melbourne. He was the Companies editor and editor of BRW Magazine. Connect with James on Twitter. Email James at j.thomson@afr.com
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