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To: Tony Viola who wrote (97233)	1/23/2000 11:58:00 AM
From: singletree	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Possibly 'cause DRIPs must be a dividend paying stock, and some mutual funds require a stock to be paying a dividend to be bought by the fund.

To: Tony Viola who wrote (97233)	1/23/2000 5:26:00 PM
From: Process Boy	Respond to of 186894

Tony - <I don't know why Intel pays a dividend (small as it is). There might be some history to it that someone else knows. That kind of thing is hard to stop, IMO, once you start it. Doesn't look good, raises questions why you stopped it, and why you started it in the first place. None of the following pay any dividend: Microsoft, Sun Micro, Cisco, EMC. FWIW.> Institutional investors and DRIPs. It would really surprise me if Intel stopped paying a dividend at this point. I think they probably figured that once they started. PB

To: Tony Viola who wrote (97233)	1/24/2000 2:47:00 AM
From: Michael Bakunin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Perhaps management feels bad about subjecting long-term investors to the vagaries of praying for a high terminal value when they finally close their position. -mb

To: Tony Viola who wrote (97233)	1/24/2000 7:16:00 AM
From: nihil	Respond to of 186894

You do understand that under the "prudent man" rule, any stock that pays no dividend (like most NASDAQs) is a "nonperforming stock" therefore speculative and therefore nix-verboten for trustees to hold. I have always suspected that the derisory dividend was one reason that Intel has such a low (for a tech) P/E. Remember, Intel is the Senior Tech -- the first company listed on the NASDAQ. When it started to perform well, no one knew that a company didn't have to pay dividends, so they did.