Word: reinvestment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lillian Berkman, who is a vice president of The Associated Group, said she believes it is important for corporations to reinvest in academics...
Certainly, some investors who live off dividends would cut and run. But there are powerful pro-investor arguments for dumping the dividend. One is that many investors reinvest dividends anyway and incur transaction costs to do so. But the main argument is that dividends are taxed as ordinary income, a marginal rate of up to 39.6%, while long-term stock gains are taxed as capital gains, a much lower rate of 20%. So it makes sense for companies to use their cash to buy back stock. Yes, a bear market could devour this strategy. But as long...
...Disney program, revamped, is typical in that it levies some nagging fees: $10 to enroll, $5 plus 4[cents] per share on each purchase by check, and varying charges on shares bought via reinvested dividends. That last fee really irks me. Few programs charge to reinvest dividends. But, hey, somebody has to pay for Eisner's limo. Even with the fees, though, there is no cheaper way to buy Disney stock. Eisner is adding Disney to a roster that includes Exxon, Ford and Gillette, but the real benefit is that he will open a floodgate that other companies will probably...
...that scare you, though. Much has changed, which is why the yield sank to last week's low of 1.99% without disrupting the bull market. Today companies hold back more of what they earn, opting not to increase dividends but to reinvest in operations or buy stock on the open market. This year, for example, blue-chip companies will report record high earnings but pay out a record low portion of those earnings as dividends (37%, vs. a post-World War II average of 52%).That's O.K., so long as reinvesting and buying back shares have their intended effect...
...concerns of her novel, where she discusses the problem of the "brain drain" in many countries like Zimbabwe. The "brain drain" is a crisis which arises whenever African students go abroad to gain knowledge and are supported by their family and neighbors, but do not return to Africa to reinvest their knowledge in their communities...