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...charged that Trans Continental shares were being sold by telephone by high-pressure operators, with the claim that the stock would double in 30 to 60 days and that the company had a good profit position and would soon declare a substantial dividend. The truth of the matter, said SEC, is that the company has operated at a loss since 1955. It cannot pay dividends until it pays off $3,000,000 in loans. Furthermore, said SEC, substantial trading in the stock was being conducted by an unnamed "foreign source," which had pushed the stock from...
...Dividends: 25%. Most Deltec issues have paid the average Brazilian dividend or better-10%-25% of par value plus stock splits. Though its expenses are high, Deltec has found the operation profitable. The fees for underwriting a stock issue in Brazil average 15%-20% of the value of the issue (U.S. average...
President Kimball and his executives make no bones about the fact that all this research comes high. In its 16 years Aerojet has paid only one common-stock dividend. All the rest of the profits go for research in a ratio that holds company expenditures to 30% for production and 70% for research each year. Eventually, probably by 1960 when Titan and Polaris are in production, Aerojet will pay its stockholders regular dividends. But never so much that it cannot lay a big bet on any exciting new field that opens...
Through its in years, the Pennsylvania Railroad has never been successfully challenged by a rebel stockholder or failed to pay an annual cash dividend. Last week both those possibilities cornered the Pennsy...
...year ago." In a crash drive to save money, the line cut its work force by a fifth in the past year, is doing practically no heavy maintenance work. Its cash is "exceedingly low," and its prospects for a profit in 1958 "extremely doubtful." The Pennsy has skipped its dividends for the first two quarters this year. When a stockholder asked if the Pennsy would pay any dividend this year, Symes replied: "I make no promises...