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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (218921)	3/6/2013 11:55:16 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543140

I haven't bought a conglomerate like GE for a long time. If I had bought it, though, it would have been more successful than several of the companies that I do own, however. Far more so, in fact.

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (218921)	3/6/2013 12:30:03 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543140

OK--if it is such a good story why not then? Other factors about GE turn you off to it? If you are interested in GE and/or the wider issue of investing in dividend stocks, I recommend, as highly as I possible can, that you subscribe to Morningstar Dividend Investor stuff. Josh Peters runs it. He has two paper portfolios--a Builder portfolio and a Harvest Portfolio. GE is in the former. It should be obvious from the names that the Harvest Portfolio is for folk who want high dividend returns with not a high likelihood of growth (classic retirees) and the Builder portfolio for companies with lower dividend returns but good prospects for dividend and stock value growth. Peters maintains the website I've linked above, a monthly newsletter, and weekly (Friday) portfolio updates. Plus updates when he buys and/or sells portfolio holdings. It is, in short a great place to do some of your research on GE plus other dividend stocks.