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LOVELACE: Intel [0.5%] already pays a token dividend. As for others, I think the answer is yes. Traditionally, paying a dividend was an expression of confidence by management. With tech companies, that got flip-flopped. Paying a dividend was a sign of a lack of confidence in future growth. The traditional view is coming back...
STEPHEN BOESEL: The really strong negative related to Microsoft is, it almost guarantees that the proposed dividend-tax cut is going to be pared. There is no way they will let Bill Gates collect $100 million each year tax free...
MICHELLE STEIN: In the 1970s, three-quarters of stocks' total return came from dividends, but that fell to around a fifth in the '90s. Now, as people are getting older, a lot of them are hurting because dividend yields are so low. As these people move away from risk, they're going to want more of the kind of return that goes into their pockets...
BOESEL: The shift to dividends could be very big. Just about any company you can look back at that was a significant buyer of its own shares bought at too high a price. And it is hard to find any big mergers that have worked out. So you come back to what management can control: the dividend. Dividends are back, and don't underestimate the ability of Wall Street to make a theme...
TIME: So can we look forward to a wave of new, dividend-focused mutual funds...