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  • Mark February 2016
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Dividends, Wall Street’s Battered Status Symbol

TedTed
in Off-Topic
FYI: Coca-Cola pays steady dividends. It has done so since 1920. In fact, it has increased dividends in each of the last 50 years.
“Investors look at that record, and they count on it,” said Douglas J. Skinner, an accounting professor at the University of Chicago. “After a while, the dividend becomes sacrosanct.”
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Ted
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/your-money/dividends-wall-streets-battered-status-symbol.html?ref=business&_r=0

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  • MarkMark
    OK, speaking for this investor, I can almost handle a cut in the dividend of a company (LOL, just kidding!). It's the prevarications and outright lies leading up to the cut that drive me insane.
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