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kowenicki said:
dallas said:
DirtyP2002 said:

Here is another article, and another opininon.

http://beta.fool.com/et1980/2013/01/13/5-reasons-to-buy-microsoft-now/21511/?source=TheMotleyFool

 

Some of the reasoning there wasn't that great. 

 

For example:

1. increase in future dividend rate -  well, that will cut down on future growth.  A company basically wants to increase dividends when it knows that investing into the company won't provide as good of a return as just giving it away to investors, and is therefore a signal to investors and the markets that future growth won't be as high as it is now.

2. Growth projections-  It lists 14% growth for 2014....... the writer must be stoned. 

3.  The writer lists innovation with the MS Surface.....given the poor sales, the writer must be stoned.

4.  Upcoming Catalyst-  A catalyst is usually identified as a trend either helping or hurting a company ( like more people buying PC's, or growth in techie culture, etc), but lists none of these.  This is bad, as in gaming journalismp level of bad.

1.  Your answer here shows me there is no pointin talking about anything financial with you.  This is so utterly ridiculous its laughable.

You said a Dividend payment is a sign of a weakening company.

what the holy fuck!? lol



A company that posts a dividend is signaling that it will grow less in the future.  That much is considered a given, unless you are talking about companies in dire straits such as Sony (who definitely won't be increasing their dividends anytime soon) who cannot afford to increase their dividends or declare the corporation's first dividend.