vialactea

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vialactea replied to the Francesca's Holdings Corp. board. 9:39 AM

Re: Channel Check

I second the request. When I first heard about the stock I went to the website and was well impressed with the clothes. I asked my wife to have a look at the website as well and she was also well impressed with them.

Having an opinion from [more]

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vialactea replied to the Apple board. 8:51 PM

Re: $100,000,000,000 by end of 2015

Well, I have a different view. I could do without the stock purchase and I'd rather have a higher dividend.

With the later I get to decide what to do with the money. I can buy more of the stock, spend the money, buy something else, etc. It [more]

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vialactea replied to the Dividend Growth Investing board. 9:41 AM

Re: Crisis and suspension of DRIP

You are right Gene. If the business is doing well, not only the dividend grows, but the share price also has to grow (at some point). Having said that, the longer that takes to happen the happier I am.

I'll illustrate with an example. I [more]

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vialactea replied to the Dividend Growth Investing board. 1:35 PM

Re: Crisis and suspension of DRIP

Thanks Donna and everyone else for your feedback. I believe I failed to present my question adequately.

The prospect of a crisis doesn't scare me. On the contrary, it excites me. In 2000 I was fully invested and about 20% on margin. In [more]

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vialactea replied to the Dividend Growth Investing board. 1:15 PM

Re: Crisis and suspension of DRIP

Hi Gene. Thanks for your feedback. My apologies for not having explained myself properly.

I split my portfolio into two parts, one is for growth stocks (30%) and the other for dividend paying stocks (70%). In the former I'm looking for [more]

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vialactea posted to the Dividend Growth Investing board. 9:23 PM

Crisis and suspension of DRIP

Hi. I'll split this post in three parts: my current portfolio, my concern over another crisis and finally a couple of questions.

-- Current portfolio --

Since January 2011 I started investing in dividend paying companies looking for [more]