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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Moominoid who wrote (31830)	10/17/1998 8:38:00 AM
From: bearshark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

David: I agree that dividends are not what people are looking to now. I don't know if we will ever return to the standards of the past. If we do have a severe market collapse, I would think that investors of today may look at dividends in the future. However, dividends are related to a firm's profits. In recessions, dividends drop. So even if dividend valuations are a part of stock pricing in the future, they cannot be trusted in a recession. Even utilities have cut their dividends in the past.