Word: dividends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unforeseen rush by buyers to larger, option-filled models that return a fatter profit than smaller cars. General Motors and Chrysler both announced record earnings for the period, $909 million and $155 million respectively; G.M., after paying its stockholders 60? a share in March, will move its third-quarter dividend back up to 85?. Ford's earnings quadrupled over the same period last year, to $441.9 million...
...push sales to nearly half a billion dollars last fiscal year. Nonetheless, it reported a $7 million loss, its first in 15 years. That was followed by a deficit of $47 million for the first nine months of fiscal 1976, which ended May 2. The company has suspended all dividend payments and is asking 18 banks and insurance companies to work out a new credit agreement (the lenders have already waived most provisions of a $110 million long-term loan). Meanwhile, the company is in full retreat from tomorrow. It plans to shut down or sell...
Franklin Jarman remains unsatisfied: he is anxious to resume dividend payments. But one Genesco stockholder who seems pleased by developments is none other than Maxey Jarman. Not long ago, he sent his son a copy of a book on airplanes, inscribed with a kind personal note. In return, Frank Jarman sent him a copy of Futurologist Herman Kahn's optimistic book The Next 200 Years. Says Franklin Jarman: "Time heals everything." Profits help...
...given some startling glimpses of specifics. He once mentioned the deduction for interest on home mortgages as one that he might recommend dropping, though he lately has shied away from the subject. And he believes it is unfair to tax corporate profits and then tax the dividends paid out of those profits−so he would either knock out all taxes on dividend income or stop taxing the portion of corporate profits that is paid out in dividends to shareholders...
Generally the institutions are putting their money into the stocks of "smokestack America"-basic-industry companies that have good dividend records and modest P/Es...