Word: dividend
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...convinced that Hilton's top brass had rigged the market price prior to the offer in order to sell 101,000 of their own shares to the company at a fat personal profit. After that, the price of Hilton stock plunged downward, and the company passed its usual dividend...
...viewpoint, tight money has made bonds more attractive than at any time since 1921. Many a $1,000-par medium-grade corporate bond is selling close to $900 and yielding about 6% ; some tax-free municipal bonds pay interest of 4%, which is as good as an 8% stock dividend return to an investor in a high-tax bracket. The current struggle in Wall Street's market is not between bulls and bears, but between stocks and bonds. Calling some important turns are the faceless but formidable institutions-mutual funds, pension and profit-sharing funds, insurance companies and banks...
Golden Rule. When Sloan became president, the company had 12% of the U.S. auto market; when he stepped out as chairman, it had 52%. G.M. never skipped a dividend-Sloan's golden rule was that profits were worth nothing if they were not passed on to shareholders. At the time of his death, he was the largest shareholder, with more than 690,000 shares...
...offer was not only financially intriguing-$15 million for 18% of a company that has not paid a dividend in a decade-but it came wrapped in mystery. On behalf of an unnamed investor, the venerable Manhattan investment-banking firms of Lehman Bros, and Lazard Freres announced that they would pay $30 a share, $3.25 above the market price, for up to 500,000 shares of Studebaker Corp...
...impressive were the sales and earnings reports that poured in like a gilt-edged harvest from company after company. From post-tax profits of $37.2 billion in 1964, U.S. companies increased earnings last year to $44 billion. The average industrial company's profit increased 13.4%, with the average dividend rising from $2.60 to $2.85. Buoyed by continuing profits from jet aircraft, the air-transportation industry led all others with a 54% increase in earnings. Electronics were up 48%, textiles 45% and TV manufacture...