Howard Silverblatt
Howard Silverblatt
Howard Da Silvawas an American actor, director and musical performer on stage, film, television and radio. He was cast in dozens of productions on the New York stage, appeared in more than two dozen television programs, and acted in more than fifty feature films. Adept at both drama and musicals on the stage, he appeared in the original 1943 run of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!, and also portrayed the prosecuting attorney in the 1957 stage production of Compulsion...
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Right now, we're looking at the 16th straight quarter of double-digit profits. We've seen broad gains, not for the entire world, but it's going to be a very decent quarter.
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Companies were shy, ... they are definitely doing more.
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It makes a difference when you look at a company with 14 percent growth as opposed to 8 percent growth.
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There's some question of 'did the companies lowball the numbers?'
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The aim of the S&P 500 is to emulate the entire market, not necessarily do better than the market. If we beat the overall market, we're not doing our job.
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Beyond the first quarter, you get a lot of ifs, ands and buts.
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Cash is an asset that sits on the sideline and waits to be invested,
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The idea that they would pay a dividend was a changing of the guard.
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But the bottom line is the charge existed. It's there.
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You don't want to pay for 13 percent growth when you're only getting 8 percent.
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Oil prices are going nowhere but up and so we believe that earnings are going to go south. It does cast a doubt over whether earnings growth for the rest of the year will be at double-digit levels.
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We have already started to see some consumer resistance on high oil prices and this is obviously going to increase, and it will hurt consumer spending.
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The question now is what are you going to do with it. Many companies now have the rare opportunity to make long-term investments or return large values back to shareholders while still having sufficient cash left to grow and finance their business.
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While the magnitude is troublesome, the inability to compute and compare issue information is alarming.