Momintn's Comments RSS Syndication from SeekingAlpha.com http://seekingalpha.com/user/380141/comments http://seekingalpha.com/article/1447331/comments?source=feed#comment-19042461 19042461 Mon, 20 May 2013 16:16:56 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1390871/comments?source=feed#comment-18617891 18617891 Thu, 09 May 2013 09:03:21 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1406011/comments?source=feed#comment-18605641 18605641 Wed, 08 May 2013 21:21:55 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/currents/post/997531?source=feed#comment-18603251 18603251
"USPS, IBM Beat Kiosk Patent Infringement Suit In Fed. Circ.

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Law360, New York (May 08, 2013, 3:10 PM ET) -- The Federal Circuit ruled Wednesday that IBM Corp. and the U.S. Postal Service haven't infringed a patent for automated shipping by offering customers self-service postal kiosks, affirming a lower court's findings.

The appeals court rejected arguments from Uship Intellectual Properties LLC that said a lower court judge had misconstrued a key aspect of the company's U.S. Patent Number 5,831,220, thereby leaving intact the judge's ruling that the kiosks — used by USPS and built by IBM — didn't infringe the patent."]]> Wed, 08 May 2013 20:14:50 -0400
"USPS, IBM Beat Kiosk Patent Infringement Suit In Fed. Circ.

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Law360, New York (May 08, 2013, 3:10 PM ET) -- The Federal Circuit ruled Wednesday that IBM Corp. and the U.S. Postal Service haven't infringed a patent for automated shipping by offering customers self-service postal kiosks, affirming a lower court's findings.

The appeals court rejected arguments from Uship Intellectual Properties LLC that said a lower court judge had misconstrued a key aspect of the company's U.S. Patent Number 5,831,220, thereby leaving intact the judge's ruling that the kiosks — used by USPS and built by IBM — didn't infringe the patent."]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/1406011/comments?source=feed#comment-18531181 18531181 IBM also said it anticipates requesting an additional increase to the buyback plan at the October board meeting.
The company said it has reduced its share count by one-third since early 2000, returning more than $150 billion to shareholders via dividends and buybacks.
Read more: http://fxn.ws/16SkHTu
Buffett isn't selling his shares. Are you suggesting that people sell Berkshire shares? I think it is a bad idea to sell shares in a stock when the company is buying.]]> Tue, 07 May 2013 09:27:23 -0400 IBM also said it anticipates requesting an additional increase to the buyback plan at the October board meeting.
The company said it has reduced its share count by one-third since early 2000, returning more than $150 billion to shareholders via dividends and buybacks.
Read more: http://fxn.ws/16SkHTu
Buffett isn't selling his shares. Are you suggesting that people sell Berkshire shares? I think it is a bad idea to sell shares in a stock when the company is buying.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/1405111/comments?source=feed#comment-18523481 18523481 http://seekingalpha.co...]]> Tue, 07 May 2013 02:08:59 -0400 http://seekingalpha.co...]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/1405111/comments?source=feed#comment-18520961 18520961 Mon, 06 May 2013 23:24:39 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1390871/comments?source=feed#comment-18502241 18502241 Mon, 06 May 2013 14:41:36 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1399091/comments?source=feed#comment-18502161 18502161 Recent news you may have missed:
http://bit.ly/12LiNNM
http://huff.to/16O6IOG
http://bit.ly/12LiLWe
http://bit.ly/16O6KWB]]> Mon, 06 May 2013 14:40:49 -0400 Recent news you may have missed:
http://bit.ly/12LiNNM
http://huff.to/16O6IOG
http://bit.ly/12LiLWe
http://bit.ly/16O6KWB]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/1405111/comments?source=feed#comment-18502061 18502061 P/B is a very poor way to value technology companies because it does not know how to value patents. IBM is the largest patent holder and increases those patents every year. If someone told you you could invest in a company that was working on a computer to act like the human brain and that same company had a solar product shaped like a disc to power a building would you want to invest in that company?
There are many reasons to own IBM and you have ignored several of them.]]> Mon, 06 May 2013 14:39:37 -0400 P/B is a very poor way to value technology companies because it does not know how to value patents. IBM is the largest patent holder and increases those patents every year. If someone told you you could invest in a company that was working on a computer to act like the human brain and that same company had a solar product shaped like a disc to power a building would you want to invest in that company?
There are many reasons to own IBM and you have ignored several of them.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/1390871/comments?source=feed#comment-18407721 18407721 Good for you that you didn't listen to them on IBM. I agree with you that buybacks are good for investors. I don't pay taxes on them, unlike dividends. (But you see the pundits have been pushing dividend stocks and dividend ETFs, so this doesn't go along with their case.) Dividends actually return your investment to you, as the exchange reduces the value of the stock on the ex-dividend date. Buybacks do not do this.
You can see if your company is reducing their share count with the buybacks here:
http://on-msn.com/14AaREI
Scroll down to the balance sheets 10 year summary.]]> Fri, 03 May 2013 12:10:20 -0400 Good for you that you didn't listen to them on IBM. I agree with you that buybacks are good for investors. I don't pay taxes on them, unlike dividends. (But you see the pundits have been pushing dividend stocks and dividend ETFs, so this doesn't go along with their case.) Dividends actually return your investment to you, as the exchange reduces the value of the stock on the ex-dividend date. Buybacks do not do this.
You can see if your company is reducing their share count with the buybacks here:
http://on-msn.com/14AaREI
Scroll down to the balance sheets 10 year summary.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/1285651/comments?source=feed#comment-18264521 18264521 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:11:23 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1380261/comments?source=feed#comment-18226761 18226761
And read about how cheap technology stocks are. If you can identify which ones are buying back the most shares this year, you may find the winners.
http://bloom.bg/18f2P1z]]> Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:58:01 -0400
And read about how cheap technology stocks are. If you can identify which ones are buying back the most shares this year, you may find the winners.
http://bloom.bg/18f2P1z]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/1380361/comments?source=feed#comment-18221601 18221601 http://bit.ly/XFQpLu
Click on the expanded view and look at the graph. This is with re-invested dividends and buybacks giving you a total return that is better than the S&P.]]> Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:08:54 -0400 http://bit.ly/XFQpLu
Click on the expanded view and look at the graph. This is with re-invested dividends and buybacks giving you a total return that is better than the S&P.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/1369301/comments?source=feed#comment-18166391 18166391
http://yhoo.it/12Pnx8A;range=20030401,201304...]]> Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:24:32 -0400
http://yhoo.it/12Pnx8A;range=20030401,201304...]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/1369301/comments?source=feed#comment-18166321 18166321 http://bit.ly/14qWzqW
This performance includes re-investing dividends and I don't believe the charts in this article do. You can see that at times Berkshire's performance is under the S&P 500 but it is about the same over the 10 year period if you click on the expanded view.
Now look at IBM and you will see out-performance.
I don't pay much attention to Morningstar ratings because some of my mutual funds outperform even without the high rating and I have had highly rated funds who did not.]]> Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:21:22 -0400 http://bit.ly/14qWzqW
This performance includes re-investing dividends and I don't believe the charts in this article do. You can see that at times Berkshire's performance is under the S&P 500 but it is about the same over the 10 year period if you click on the expanded view.
Now look at IBM and you will see out-performance.
I don't pay much attention to Morningstar ratings because some of my mutual funds outperform even without the high rating and I have had highly rated funds who did not.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/1369301/comments?source=feed#comment-18166301 18166301 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:21:06 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1375491/comments?source=feed#comment-18155921 18155921 IBM is having shareholder days in various cities, so you may want to go to one of them close to you.]]> Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:03:32 -0400 IBM is having shareholder days in various cities, so you may want to go to one of them close to you.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/currents/post/954351?source=feed#comment-18153071 18153071 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:42:15 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1366101/comments?source=feed#comment-18061951 18061951 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:35:25 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1366101/comments?source=feed#comment-18054751 18054751 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:21:06 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1365051/comments?source=feed#comment-18054721 18054721 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:20:37 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1363931/comments?source=feed#comment-18054711 18054711 You can read more about this if you translate Chinese websites.

GM is up 3% today on the Chevy Spark EV getting 82 miles on a full charge.]]> Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:20:33 -0400 You can read more about this if you translate Chinese websites.

GM is up 3% today on the Chevy Spark EV getting 82 miles on a full charge.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/1361661/comments?source=feed#comment-17991641 17991641 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:51:52 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1361011/comments?source=feed#comment-17991471 17991471 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:49:27 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1360781/comments?source=feed#comment-17991311 17991311 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:45:41 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1361011/comments?source=feed#comment-17991271 17991271 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:45:11 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1360001/comments?source=feed#comment-17975221 17975221 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:41:37 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1359871/comments?source=feed#comment-17972221 17972221 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:55:52 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1358361/comments?source=feed#comment-17972001 17972001 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:53:16 -0400