Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bell & Howell to distribute three additional shares for each four now held by its stockholders, then offer a share-for-share exchange with Consolidated Electrodynamics Corp...
Amidst the third-quarter earnings reports and stock-split announcements last week there was a standout: Westinghouse Electric Corp. With the company's nine months' earnings soaring ($3.17 per share v. $2.79 in 1958) on only slightly higher sales than last year, its directors recommended a two-for-one stock split, boosted the annual dividend rate from $2 to $2.40. For Westinghouse, the nation's oldest (73 years) and second largest electrical equipment maker (first: General Electric), the split climaxed a three-year drive to reorganize the company and recover from a crippling five-month...
With the effects of the steel strike still to be felt, bright earnings news last week also came from General Motors Corp., whose third-quarter profits doubled over the same period a year ago, and boosted nine months' net to $2.55 per share v. $1.39 last year...
...heavy third-period losses, though most showed nine-month results ahead of last year. Top ranking U.S. Steel had its first quarterly loss in 21 years, and its largest ever. Big Steel lost $31 million in the July-September period, but had nine months' earnings of $3.80 per share v. $3.56 last year. Other nine-month steel earnings: 1958 1959 Bethlehem Steel $1.68 $1.75 Jones & Laughlin 1.45 3.15 Wheeling Steel 1.80 2.78 Inland Steel 1.86 1.99 While second-quarter earnings made up for the third-period shutdown for most steel companies, they were not enough for ailing railroads...
Brunswick-Balke Collender Co. reported a record September quarter net of $5.15 per share, boosting nine months' earnings to $755 a share v. $4.73 last year. Motorola Inc. had record nine months' earnings of $4.90 per share v. $1.66 last year. Other nine months' results...