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Microsoft's Dividend: A Sign of Maturity | |
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| Time: 00:39 EST/05:39 GMT | News Source: Business Week Online | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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At Microsoft's annual meetings each November, one shareholder question is as predictable as the fall that rains in Redmond: When will the software giant issue a dividend? Even as Microsoft's cash holdings ballooned to $40 billion, Chairman William H. Gates and CEO Steven A. Ballmer could always be counted on to recite the standard company line: The board routinely considers the matter but wants to keep the cash for contingencies. Yet on Jan. 16, the board changed its mind. Microsoft (MSFT ) will split its stock on Jan. 27 and pay an 8-cent per share annual dividend on Mar. 7 to shareholders of record as of Feb. 21. | ||
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| #1 By 135 (208.50.206.187) at 1/20/2003 11:06:48 AM |
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parker - Could you be any more incoherent?
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| #2 By 135 (208.50.206.187) at 1/20/2003 12:56:00 PM |
| Yes, we wouldn't want you to stretch your vocabulary. |
| #3 By 135 (208.50.206.187) at 1/20/2003 2:09:22 PM |
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Maturing means... becoming a blue-chip. i.e. stable stock value, issuing dividends. Like GM, IBM, Gillete, Proctor & Gamble, etc.
What Bush has to do with this is truly baffling, and involves a leap of logic that only parker could manage. We were talking about MSFT issuing dividends or doing a stock buyback over a year ago. |
| #4 By 135 (208.50.206.187) at 1/20/2003 4:39:49 PM |
| parker - Your logic exudes desperation. |
| #5 By 135 (208.50.206.187) at 1/20/2003 6:04:50 PM |
| parker - You believe what you want to believe. Facts wouldn't persuade you anyway. |
| #6 By 135 (208.50.206.187) at 1/20/2003 7:35:41 PM |
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parker - The answer is 1.
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| #7 By 135 (208.50.206.187) at 1/20/2003 8:30:00 PM |
| You missed the John McLaughlin reference. :( |
| #8 By 1845 (12.209.152.69) at 1/20/2003 8:44:32 PM |
| blue, if I were you, I wouldn't waste my breath on parker. He posts good stuff every so often, but more often than not that is not the case. |
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