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To: bob wallace who wrote (177)	3/25/2003 5:34:31 PM
From: Paul Senior	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 387

I have posted here about stocks I have bought where the dividend is well over 8% or more. With such stocks where I have full positions, I will want to deploy additional funds elsewhere, and I sometimes find what I perceive to be opportunities in dividend paying stocks where the yield is low (but consistent or increasing). For stocks yielding under 6%, I'm not interested in them just for the dividends they pay. I'm looking for total return with some sort of decent risk/reward ratio. JPM at current price does not fit my idea of a good risk/return bet---too many bad business practices and too many lawsuits. I'd rather own the mundane stocks I've mentioned here: they seem to me to be selling at decent prices, with smaller dividends (yields) that also are increased every year, and where it appears to me that there is some chance of capital gain as well. Thanks for sharing your technique for dividend capture. I've not been successful with dividend capture plays you describe, so I don't do much of it. Perhaps I should look closer at your technique. Fwiw, there's an SI thread for Buying REITs 1 - 2 weeks Before Going Ex-dividend, if anyone is interested. Subject 10022