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  • Why Exxon Should Significantly Increase its Dividend [View article]
    One of the factors contributing to dividend yield also is how high or low the price is bid up or down to by the market cogniescenti...My latest oil buy was based on yield alone. Fundamental and emotional factors affecting the price of low dividend stocks can change as well as it can for higher yielding ones.

    And buyer sentiment can fluctuate wildly too. How often do we see a stock priced at $45 now and then $32 six months later and that does not mean there was a sudden 30 percent hole cut out of the company.

    Years ago I interviewed the head of a public corporation who said his master's thesis was on whether or not dividend yield influences stock investing decisions. His thesis concluded that overall it did not. Of course, that applies to the macro and not the mico.

    On a given day I might buy into RDS.B because I want higher yield and others will pile into XOM confident that the latter will give them a higher total return over the time frame they have in mind - which for most traders seems to be a few days.


    long: CVX, MUR, RDS.B
    Oct 10 12:24 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
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