Behold the Dividend
Fool’s School
If you’re thinking that dividends are only for grandparents, think again. They can enrich us all, especially when reinvested in additional shares of stock.
Consider this: Between January 1926 and December 2006, 41 percent of the S&P 500’s total return was due not to the increase in the prices of the stocks in the index, but to the dividends those companies paid out. Full Story
Name That Company
Based in Memphis, I’m a global giant in the paper and packaging industry, employing more than 50,000 people. Through my North American distribution business, xpedx, I also offer printing, packaging, graphic arts, and maintenance and industrial products. Full Story
The Nokia Strategy
The Motley Fool Take
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has talked about wanting to “democratize” the smartphone market, bringing prices down for less affluent consumers around the world. Full Story
Sold the Wrong One
My Dumbest Investment
I needed cash and sold my Apple stock at $22 per share, when I should have sold Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which was around $20. (It’s around $8.50 now, and I didn’t sell it when it hit $40, either.) I made up for my mistake a bit by buying more AMD when it hit $4, but I didn’t buy nearly enough to cover what I could have made by just holding Apple, which was Full Story
Last week’s trivia answer
Based in Grapevine, Texas, I’m the world’s biggest retailer of video games and entertainment software, selling both new and used hardware as well as software. I trace my roots back to Babbage’s, which merged with Software Etc., and was later sold to Barnes & Noble. Then I merged with Funco, and later adopted my current name. I operate more than 6,400 stores in the U.S. Full Story
A Tricky Split
Ask the Fool
Q Should I be worried that a stock
I own is planning a reverse
stock split?
— K.C., Spokane, Wash.
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