ITGOW Part 2: Why I Added McDonald's To My DRiP [View article]
The Delivery Guy and ordonezo have this exactly right. YCharts shows the full value of the dividend to be paid as of the ex-dividend date.
The original chart shows annual dividends up to 2007 (one point per year), then quarterly dividends thereafter - just as many commenters have suggested.
ABT is part of our Warren Buffett portfolio and rated "Attractive" given the strong Y-Value Score, strong fundamentals and it trades below fair value based on historical multiples. ycharts.com/portfolios...
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Here is the historical P/E and stock price for the last 10 years. ycharts.com/companies/... PCAR is trading well above the historical average TTM PE ratio.
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Tim: Good point on the employee count.
For those that are interested in details of the quarter: Jan. 28, 2010 — Microsoft Corp. today announced record revenue of $19.02 billion for the second quarter ended Dec. 31, 2009, a 14% increase from the same period of the prior year. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $8.51 billion, $6.66 billion and $0.74 per share, which represented increases of 43%, 60% and 57%, respectively, when compared with the prior year period.
These financial results include the recognition of $1.71 billion of deferred revenue, an impact of $0.14 of diluted earnings per share, relating to the Windows 7 Upgrade Option Program and pre-sales of Windows 7 to OEMs and retailers before general availability. Adjusting for the deferred revenue recognition, second-quarter revenue totaled $17.31 billion, and diluted earnings per share totaled $0.60 per share. www.microsoft.com/msft...
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It looks like our data provider missed one of the payments on 12/24/08. There was a special dividend on 12/24/2008.
12/24/08 12/29/08 12/17/08 1/29/09 0.8925 Quarterly
12/24/08 12/29/08 12/17/08 1/29/09 1.8075 Special
10/1/08 10/3/08 9/18/08 10/15/08 0.8925 Quarterly
6/26/08 6/30/08 6/16/08 7/15/08 0.8925 Quarterly
3/28/08 4/1/08 2/5/08 4/15/08 0.8925 Quarterly
This will be fixed shortly.
ITGOW Part 2: Why I Added McDonald's To My DRiP [View article]
The original chart shows annual dividends up to 2007 (one point per year), then quarterly dividends thereafter - just as many commenters have suggested.
See: http://bit.ly/M5fNUx
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ycharts.com/companies/... PCAR is trading well above the historical average TTM PE ratio.
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For those that are interested in details of the quarter:
Jan. 28, 2010 — Microsoft Corp. today announced record revenue of $19.02 billion for the second quarter ended Dec. 31, 2009, a 14% increase from the same period of the prior year. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $8.51 billion, $6.66 billion and $0.74 per share, which represented increases of 43%, 60% and 57%, respectively, when compared with the prior year period.
These financial results include the recognition of $1.71 billion of deferred revenue, an impact of $0.14 of diluted earnings per share, relating to the Windows 7 Upgrade Option Program and pre-sales of Windows 7 to OEMs and retailers before general availability. Adjusting for the deferred revenue recognition, second-quarter revenue totaled $17.31 billion, and diluted earnings per share totaled $0.60 per share.
www.microsoft.com/msft...
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