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Old 07-23-2009, 09:30 AM
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Hey Boomer,

Forget the Beanie babies and Pez dispensers. Try calculators, instead. after teaching college for over thirty-six years I can tell you that calculators will be in great demand if there is a major collapse. Nobody can do simple arithmetic anymore.

By the way a good tool for analyzing a dividend stock is to divide the dividend per share by the earnings per share. If the result is greater that 100% do not purchase the stock it means the company is cannibalizing itself to continue to look good to its shareholders. Some companies like utilities will have high percentages, say 75% or more but that's just because they normally pay high dividends.
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