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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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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Given the historically slow pace of change for dividends, the growth in dividend payers since January 2003 has been remarkable. Unlike the prior 20 years when the number of paying issues actually declined by 25%, since the start of 2003 the number of paying issues within the S&P 500 issues has risen by 10% to 386. For the remainder of 2006, we expect a continuation in both dividend increases and initiations among S&P 500 constituents, resulting in another double-digit gain in dividend payments.
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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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It makes a difference when you look at a company with 14 percent growth as opposed to 8 percent growth.
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It'll downshift just a little bit. But there's nothing wrong with that. You can't expect 20 percent profit growth forever.
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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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Unlike pensions, which are regulated, OPEB has no legal requirement to create a trust entity to fund the current and future costs. Additionally, specific tax treatments and credits set up to encourage pension funding do not exist for OPEB funds.
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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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We believe this project will have a significant impact on evaluations, income and balance sheets, and will become the major issue in financial accounting over the next five years.
When everyone has money, you get into a bidding war.
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But the bottom line is the charge existed. It's there.
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I would definitely agree that numbers are cleaner than they've been in several years. But a decade? I don't know.
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Cash is an asset that sits on the sideline and waits to be invested,