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To: Gottfried who wrote (1378)	6/9/2014 1:34:23 PM
From: Kirk ©	2 Recommendations Recommended By Blasher Gottfried Respond to of 26584

Yeah, I was accumulating IBM slowly with HP profits back before the crash... then when I was at WESCON to meet with the IBM laptop team to put HP IrDA inside... Gallagher was there splitting watermelons to go with IBMers there without ties... so I doubled down on IBM at about $11. I heard on TV that the Apple stores are nearly empty and they are relying on some new invention to refill the stores. Having worked at a company that used to invent things.... I probably know more than most just how difficult it is to pull off inventing new products with $10B markets.... and they probably need 10x that to really outperform an index fund. Apple might regain the growth with the IOT, but Google, Samsung, Cisco, and all the other usual suspects plus the small companies without the baggage are trying to invent the same things.

To: Gottfried who wrote (1378)

6/10/2014 10:38:23 AM

From: Kirk ©

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Here is another stock I diversified from HPQ in the 1990s and put it in my newsletter portfolio expecting it to benefit from people ordering things on the internet.

This is a 33% increase in dividend.

FedEx Corp. Announces Increase in Quarterly Dividend
MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 9, 2014 ... The Board of Directors of FedEx Corporation today declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.20per share on FedEx Corporation common stock, a $0.05 per share increase from the prior quarter’s dividend. The dividend is payable July 3, 2014 to stockholders of record at the close of business on June 19, 2014.

investors.fedex.com

It was one of the five stocks I put in my original "Explore Portfolio" in Sept. 30, 1998.