MauDib

Eight More Companies Increase Their Dividends

Finally, someone making sense. What has to happen is that businesses increase dividends, not cut them, to encourage investment. Like buying a CD, that encourages families to save now because of increased consumption in the future, not just a hoped for and vague promise of future capital gains.

Of all the stakeholders in a business, e.g. govt taxes, employees, etc., the distant owners get the least after everyone else gets their cut - the poster child is GM.

During this decade, I read financial commentators talking about a "mouth-watering" 3 % dividend - you have got to be kidding! Give the shareholders a real return on their investment since mgt does not need the cash for growth (and growth for its own sake - questionable benefit) - bad decisions by having too much cash - Look at MicroSoft - billions of dollars of cash. Where is the IRS with the accumulated earnings tax?