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Dividend Paying Stocks: You Only Have to Be Lucky Once

I bought CSCO in 2001 and it never again saw the light of day. John Chambers seems to enjoy destroying shareholder value by making negative comments on good news and negative comments with no news. If the price is up Chambers will kill it. They do not pay a dividend. CSCO and Chambers care nothing about shareholder value so increasing earnings are irrelevant. Trade only, otherwise, avoid.

Not Off the RIMM - Cramer's Lightning Round (9/3/08)

Cramer does not know the Shipping Sector. Neither do show hosts on CNBC. I heard one confuse bulk shipping with containers coming out of China. Either the sector is too small, or they don't have contacts to interview, or they don't have access to shipping analysts in New York. I sometimes wonder what other sectors are great investments but we don't hear about them because Cramer and his cohorts don't follow them.

Shipping Stocks: I'd Wait To Buy Frontline and Overseas

... so don't buy the stocks, don't receive the very high dividends for three or four quarters while waiting for the price to come down someday maybe ........ and don't take gains during price spikes ........
I guess I've been doing it wrong all these years.....

7 Stocks for a High Yield Cash Flow Portfolio

the gas & oil trusts, and shippers, do indeed provide excellent returns, especially for the income investor when compared to puny 3% CD rates. Be prepared however, to do a lot of paperwork at tax time. Shippers may have a return of capital, which is usually announced the day after you send in your tax return. Oil/gas trusts have depletion, costs, and basis calculations, K-1s maybe, or foreign tax recovery work maybe. The small or novice investor who does his own taxes may be in for a real surprise trying to figure it all out at tax prep time. Even the tax prep professionals sometimes get it wrong so you have to know your stuff. It's worth the effort, but it's a lot of effort.