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Strategies & Market Trends : Dividend investing for retirement -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Investor2 who wrote (4861)	5/31/2010 8:11:49 PM
From: Steve Felix	Respond to of 34328

Instant Xray is from Morningstar. Don't know the cost, but looks like you can get a free trial. portfolio.morningstar.com You can get it free if you have a TD Ameritrade account. I don't know about other brokers. With ESP, it seems that they are just happy with what they are doing, which includes lots of free cash flow, and special dividends to keep cash per share reasonable. Without paying the last three specials they would have $8.93 in cash. As a small company, maybe they don't want to look too enticing. With specials it would be easier to manage the amount of cash per share their holding and also stop the payout if times get tough and cash suffers. Operating Cash Flow (ttm): 4.87M Levered Free Cash Flow (ttm): 3.09M Shares Outstanding: 2.14M Float: 1.34M % Held by Insiders1: 35.84% Total Cash (mrq): 9.13M Total Cash Per Share (mrq): 4.28 Total Debt (mrq): 0.00 Their history is definitely nothing to sneeze at. Since Jan. 1st 2006, a 2 for one split, five raises, and three specials. Why didn't I buy some sooner? Mar 3, 2010 $ 0.225 Dividend Dec 3, 2009 $ 1.225 Dividend Sep 2, 2009 $ 0.225 Dividend Jun 3, 2009 $ 0.225 Dividend Mar 4, 2009 $ 0.225 Dividend Dec 4, 2008 $ 1.725 Dividend Sep 2, 2008 $ 0.225 Dividend Jun 4, 2008 $ 0.20 Dividend Mar 4, 2008 $ 1.70 Dividend Dec 10, 2007 $ 0.175 Dividend Aug 30, 2007 $ 0.175 Dividend May 30, 2007 $ 0.15 Dividend Feb 28, 2007 $ 0.15 Dividend Nov 29, 2006 $ 0.13 Dividend Aug 30, 2006 $ 0.13 Dividend Jun 1, 2006 $ 0.09 Dividend Mar 1, 2006 $ 0.09 Dividend Jan 3, 2006 2: 1 Stock Split Nov 30, 2005 $ 0.0875 Dividend Aug 31, 2005 $ 0.075 Dividend Jun 1, 2005 $ 0.075 Dividend Mar 2, 2005 $ 0.075 Dividend Dec 1, 2004 $ 0.075 Dividend Sep 13, 2004 $ 0.075 Dividend Jun 18, 2004 $ 0.25 Dividend Jun 2, 2004 $ 0.0625 Dividend Mar 8, 2004 $ 0.0625 Dividend Dec 11, 2003 $ 0.0625 Dividend Sep 11, 2003 $ 0.3125 Dividend Jun 2, 2003 $ 0.0625 Dividend Mar 5, 2003 $ 0.0375 Dividend Nov 27, 2002 $ 0.0375 Dividend