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- From: watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu (Larry Watanabe)
- Subject: Re: 10 Highest Yielding Dow Stocks
- Message-ID: <Bxzo2u.487@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- References: <75y1n6=@rpi.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:30:29 GMT
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- floydb@rpi.edu writes:
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- >the 11/19 Wall Street Journal has an interesting
- >article about the biggest companies in 1982 vs 1992.
- >Many are not so big anymore (based on market cap.).
-
- >Their stock prices have either plummeted (e.g. IBM) or
- >declined significantly or have not increased at or above
- >market rates.
-
- >Their conclusion is that buying and holding todays
- >darlings gives you a 60/40 chance of losing out.
-
- >barry
-
- Buying and holding is a relative term.
- Almost everyone buys and holds their stocks for at least 1 second.
-
- Almost no-one buys and holds their stock for 100 years.
-
- When people recommend buy and hold, what they are
- usually recommending is to buy and hold for at least
- 6 months to a year. The Wall Street Journal article
- doesn't provide evidence against this strategy.
-
- -Larry Watanabe watanabe@cs.uiuc.edu
-