Word: dividend
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...quarter GM sold 2.5% less cars than in the corresponding 1930 period, the net income of $55,122,000 was $1,736,000 higher than in 1930. For the half-year GM earned $84,122,000 against $98,355,000, or per-share earnings of $1.83 against a $1.50 dividend requirement. Although the second half is the harder one for motor companies, GM enters the final stretch with working capital of $328,000,000 against $290,000,000 a year ago. If working capital is the backbone of a company, cash is its sinew. GM has $245,000,000 deposited...
...come to terms. The merger will be effected by an exchange of stock on a ratio which, at prices prior to the announcement, was a boon to Calumet's shareholders. They will receive 3¼ shares of Phelps Dodge for one of Calumet, also a special $2.50 dividend. July 1 prices were $15¼ for Phelps, $35¼ for Calumet. After taking in Calumet's $84,000,000 assets Phelps Dodge will be a $370,000,000 company, ranking second only to Anaconda. In production, however, it will be behind the Kennecott-Utah combination...
Last week Nabisco figured prominently in financial news. There was a change of presidents, the fourth change in the company's history. There was also newsworthy selling of the stock on printed rumors that the company is not earning its dividend, and that Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. ("A & P") may enter the biscuit business. On the change of presidents Nabisco adopted an attitude of "no significance." Hence Wall Street whispered there was significance. On the other matters the company maintained a silence of which the late great George Fisher Baker would have approved heartily...
...know I said a year ago right in this very room that if this thing kept on that I doubted if any steel manufacturer in the United States could earn a dividend on his common stock. I say now at present prices they are not earning dividends on their preferred stock...
Great Paramount-Publix Corp. reduced its dividend last month. Last week it announced the wages of all employes and executives will be cut on a graded scale ranging from 5% to 25%. The move is expected to save the company from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000 a year, will be effective until September...