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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (9677)	7/31/2011 11:08:30 AM
From: straight life	Respond to of 34328

Thank you, but my question was about the payout ration being above 100% (for both companies, and others); I don't get the wisdom of, for every dollar of earnings, paying out $1.75 or $1.40 in dividends... I take the money, but with a little trepidation. It's a headscratcher for me. Still, it's much preferable to companies like NTAP, that were always buying in large numbers of shares, and then giving those shares away free (my shares away, since I was an owner) to senior management, such that the share count was always expanding, as management seemed to have their eyes fixed on taking all the value of the company and putting it in their collective hip pocket. Thank you no; that got old real fast for me. At least a dividend goes to the owners.