Comments on: Microsoft, Dividends and Stock Buybacks http://blogmaverick.com/2004/07/20/microsoft-dividends-and-stock-buybacks/ the mark cuban weblog Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:14:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ames Tiedeman http://blogmaverick.com/2004/07/20/microsoft-dividends-and-stock-buybacks/#comment-3033 Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:37:54 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2004/07/20/microsoft-dividends-and-stock-buybacks/#comment-3033 Gold will go way up, maybe to $1,500 an ounce or higher because the dollar will fall for years. The dollar will keep falling and here is why:
The U.S. cannot sustain 800 bilion a year trade deficits. We cannot export our way out of this mess. The only answer is a sharply lower dollar to drive manufactruing home and to lower the trade deficit. The dollar has much farther to fall. What you are seeing is a long term effort (it will take 20 years) to get the trade deficit back under 1% of GDP. We are currently running a trade imbalance of nearly 6% of GDP. No nation can do this. The IMF would be stepping in to help any nation if its trade imbalance went to 6% of GDP becuase its currency would collapse! The U.S. is different, but still, we cannot sustain a trade deficit of this magnitude. People must understand that when we buy an item from say China, we pay in dollars. The Chinese company we just bought from them goes to an Exchange Bank in China and converts those dollars to Yuan. The Chinese banking system (Chinese Government) is now sitting on those dollars. They can either 1, buy oil, 2, buy Treasuries, 3. buy U.S goods, 4. buy U.S. Corporations, 5. other. Over time if we (the U.S. ) continue to run a trade deficit we could simply be completely bought and controlled by foreigners. Warren Buffet has explained the situation as being like a rich Texas farmer who loses a small piece of his land year after year and never notices for a while. When he then notices, tragedy sets in because he no longer controls his land. So in sum, we need to get the trade deficit way down. This is why the Fed has abandoned the dollar. It wil be going down for the next 20 years. That is how long it is going to take to correct this imbalance mess. Bottom line: Lower, much lower dollar will equal higher inflation and higher GOLD prices. Much higher!

]]> By: Ames Tiedeman http://blogmaverick.com/2004/07/20/microsoft-dividends-and-stock-buybacks/#comment-3032 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:07:36 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2004/07/20/microsoft-dividends-and-stock-buybacks/#comment-3032 Zacks.com is a nice way to research dividend paying stocks. This service is free. They have an area to screen stocks and they list the highest paying dividend stocks. Do your research. A super high dividend can mean bad news if the dividend yield is up because the stock collapsed.

]]> By: Daily Quote Stock Blogger http://blogmaverick.com/2004/07/20/microsoft-dividends-and-stock-buybacks/#comment-3031 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:11:08 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2004/07/20/microsoft-dividends-and-stock-buybacks/#comment-3031 Generally when a company buys back stock it is a good sign. Right?

]]> By: Richard Arc http://blogmaverick.com/2004/07/20/microsoft-dividends-and-stock-buybacks/#comment-3020 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:00:33 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2004/07/20/microsoft-dividends-and-stock-buybacks/#comment-3020 Knowing very little about the market, is Microsoft going to pay $3 per share held? If so when does this happen. I need to buy Christmas gifts for my grand children!

]]> By: flechettes http://blogmaverick.com/2004/07/20/microsoft-dividends-and-stock-buybacks/#comment-3021 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:00:33 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2004/07/20/microsoft-dividends-and-stock-buybacks/#comment-3021 when does this three dollar special dividend take place?

]]> By: Domai http://blogmaverick.com/2004/07/20/microsoft-dividends-and-stock-buybacks/#comment-3022 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:00:33 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2004/07/20/microsoft-dividends-and-stock-buybacks/#comment-3022 What about your MAMA?

Can you comment on your divesture of Mamma.com and muse about if you were thinking of re-investing in them since they have declined in value tremendously since you liquidated?

]]> By: Bill Berggren http://blogmaverick.com/2004/07/20/microsoft-dividends-and-stock-buybacks/#comment-3023 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:00:33 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2004/07/20/microsoft-dividends-and-stock-buybacks/#comment-3023 You are a moron! Dividends can be manipulated too. Many stocks can pay unsustainable dividends and go bust. Virtually no stock should be bought without a buyback program. You want to look at year-over-year change in shares outstanding. A good buyback stock buys back over 4 percent annually. A stocks value is a combination of eps, rps, assets per share, equity per share. chh eat cc xon hca are examples.

]]> By: marc palladino http://blogmaverick.com/2004/07/20/microsoft-dividends-and-stock-buybacks/#comment-3024 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:00:33 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2004/07/20/microsoft-dividends-and-stock-buybacks/#comment-3024 Mr. Cuban

Could you just reiterate again why a company (Ie. Microsoft) would decide to implement a payout with a dividend increase, one-time special dividend and a buyback? Is it simply to make different types of investors happy?

Thank you.

]]> By: cialis http://blogmaverick.com/2004/07/20/microsoft-dividends-and-stock-buybacks/#comment-3025 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:00:33 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2004/07/20/microsoft-dividends-and-stock-buybacks/#comment-3025 Lilly Dividends and cialis Buybacks

]]> By: Bill Berggren http://blogmaverick.com/2004/07/20/microsoft-dividends-and-stock-buybacks/#comment-3026 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:00:33 +0000 http://blogmaverick.wordpress.com/2004/07/20/microsoft-dividends-and-stock-buybacks/#comment-3026 Now I will go to your horrid reasons list why stock options are bad.

1. You want companies to increase earnings per share in any way they can (except increase debt). Buybacks are a wonderful way to do this.
Increasing reveues and earnings is not the name of the game, it is increasig eps and rps.

2. Many companies buyback shares without increasing debt, they use cash on hand. How is that risky cash management strategies?

3. How much a CEO gets in stock incentives has nothing to do with stock buybacks. Most companies that buyback stock generally give out fewer stock options and incentives than most companies. They respect the stock.

4. All stock options and stock grants are ownership theft and have nothing to do with buybacks.

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