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To: KeepItSimple who wrote (26278)	9/19/1999 10:38:00 AM
From: Fun-da-Mental#1	Read Replies (5) of 99985

OT - Why doesn't Microsoft pay dividends? They have about 5 billion shares issued and they earned about $8 billion in the last year. So they could pay a dollar a share yearly dividend if they wanted to. But they don't, and they have so much money lying around they have to shovel it out the back door. They give billions to charity, which is nice, but didn't it ever occur to them to pay a dividend? I guess if they paid a dollar a year dividend, that would still only be a 1% yield and it would emphasize how overvalued the stock is, whereas if they never pay a dividend at all then they can avoid the issue. Fun-da-Mental

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