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- From: furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod)
- Subject: Re: Future of OS/2 and IBM???????????? (LONG)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.042429.22295@sequent.com>
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- References: <1992Dec18.035926.1900@sequent.com> <5PeZVB1w165w@student.business.uwo.ca>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 04:24:29 GMT
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- In article <5PeZVB1w165w@student.business.uwo.ca> pkedrosk@student.business.uwo.ca (Paul S. Kedrosky) writes:
- >furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod) writes:
- >
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- >This is possibly one of the strangest definitions of stock stability I
- >have heard. There are two components to returns on a stock: dividend
- >yield and price appreciation. If the share price fluctuates madly then
- >so does the dividend yield, which is why IBM all of a sudden became a
- >good investment again when its price fell below $85 or so and its
- >dividend yield became high in relative terms. Price appreciation is the
- >other part of the investment equation and saying it is only the concern
- >of the short term investor is naive, goofy, and just plain wrong. IBM
- >earned its blue chip status, or perhaps I should say, kept it, because
- >of the naivete of many institutional investors who simply never
- >understood (in the same that IBM has only slowly understood) the
- >fundamental changes in its lines of business. That is not the same as
- >calling IBM blue chip.
- >
-
- Price appreciation does not always figure into the equation any
- more. Some clever person figured out you can sell short on stocks,
- just like commodities and the bears have had a field day raping IBM
- for profits.
-
- I do stand corrected on the blue chip issue. Moody's and S&P just
- downgraded the stock on the list. I have not followed IBM's stock
- for about a year, but focused more on commodity issues, which it
- might surprise you to know there is talk in some circles of trading
- software issues as commodities; how, I don't have the foggiest.
-
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