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...Wall Street Journal, Judge Gary's argument for limiting dividends to 7% was rebutted. The Journal pointed out that the Steel Corporation now showed a total investment of $2,126,000,000, on which 1924 earnings were about 5%. The investment behind the stock amounted to $1,586,000.000, on which payments to stockholders amounted to 3.8%. "If," argued the Wall Street Journal, "the Corporation, in a year or more than average earnings, cannot make 5% on its investment, why continue adding to that investment...
...deep ravine of Wall Street, it is an old story of how Claude H. Foster founded the Gabriel Manufacturing Co. on the modest sum of $1,500. Wall Street was equally cognizant that that Company earned $1,086,195 last year, representing an interest of 72,413% on the original investment; that Mr. Foster was the sole owner of this thriving concern, which manufactured three-quarters of the world's automobile snubbers and shock-absorbing devices. But even Wall Street, which hears many strange things without a metaphorical flicker of its eyes, opened them wide in astonishment last week...
...about two years, the future of the St. Paul R. R. has provided a ready subject for debate and conjecture at Wall Street luncheon tables. Most people thought the great Northwestern carrier would escape a receivership, although by a narrow margin. To many, therefore, the receivership (TIME, Mar. 30) came as a surprise...
...first, dealers who had sold more shares than they were subsequently able to obtain from the syndicate were forced "to buy what they needed in the market. As a result, the price rose slightly over 103. It then declined to 100 and a fraction, and there it stayed. Wall Street, as usual sceptical, is now wondering how many shares the syndicate is having to buy* to keep the price at this figure so consistently. Incidentally, this factor will determine the profits of the syndi cate in the deal. The payments made for the new Dodge securities proved a considerable influence...
Wide-eyed Wall Street...