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...steel expense embedded in the price of a typical car. In most countries, health-care costs are borne by taxpayers, and until the U.S. levels the playing field, perhaps with a "health-care surcharge," Ross maintains, virtually all large old-line companies that have downsized to stay competitive--Boeing, Goodyear, Kodak, Lucent and Xerox, to name a few--will have to cut benefits as they fight to absorb the outsize costs of their retired work forces. Only 62% of large employers provided health benefits for retirees 65 and older in 2001, vs. 80% a decade earlier, according to a survey...
Most captivating was the dynamic they established through their individuality. Terry, true to form, displayed the requisite crotch-grabbing and at several points jumped off stage to run into the crowd. His provocative lyricism included a line about Goodyear rubber as well as some banter with the females in the crowd, saying, “You all came to see Fabolous...but I know one of you will settle for me.” The subsequent screams concurred. Barnes received frenzied applause for representing Jamaica; his voice and elegant style were featured in several impressive dancehall solos. Deleon surprised when...
...trends would continue for years, as soon-to-retire baby boomers focused on the certainty of cash income over the promise of capital gains--as long as both are on equal tax footing. But there are complications. Last year 34 companies in the S&P 500, including Ford and Goodyear, paid a dividend though they lost money and paid no tax. Under the Bush plan, their dividends would be taxable. And 28 other companies, including Kodak and Chubb, paid more in dividends than the company earned. Their dividends would be partly taxable...
...trends would continue for years, as soon-to-retire baby boomers focused on the certainty of cash income over the promise of capital gains - as long as both are on equal tax footing. But there are complications. Last year 34 companies in the S&P 500, including Ford and Goodyear, paid a dividend though they lost money and paid no tax. Under the Bush plan, their dividends would be taxable. And 28 other companies, including Kodak and Chubb, paid more in dividends than the company earned. Their dividends would be partly taxable...
BASIC INDUSTRY This highly cyclical group includes Dow Chemical, aluminum producer Alcoa, rubber company Goodyear Tire and metal benders like Caterpillar--outfits that make what sells well in an economic recovery. Because their earnings are volatile, a better way to value such companies is by looking at sales, says John Manley, market strategist at Salomon Smith Barney. Over the past 30 years, he says, this group has traded at a 10% discount to the price-to-sales ratio (price per share divided by sales per share) of the S&P 500. The discount today...