Hi Ergo Sum, That's not the kind of thing I worry about. It's just fodder for the AIM machine. All I know is right now there are some fantastic buys in dividend paying stocks. They may not move around as much your tech stocks, but a 10+% yield from a reliable company is awfully hard to beat in today's market. If it goes down further I would buy some more. The market is wrong on ALD as it is on so many other stocks today. Anybody who is thinking of buying today also feels that the market is WRONG! here's another thing to think about. Let's say JP Morgan has a branch in your neighborhood. I don't know the exact number but let's say they're paying 1 1/2% on a savings acount, or maybe its 3 3/4% on a CD where you can't touch your money for an entire year. Why would you do either of those two things or any of their other choices when you can buy shares of JPM which are today paying 6 1/4%. Perhaps one reason is that you think JP Morgan is going out of business soon. Or perhaps another company going out of business any minute or so is General Motors paying over 5%. These and other companies like them have been in business about a century or so. We're not talking Enron here. We're talking about companies that make up the foundation of american business. Man it is bargain days on Wall Street. Bernie
The dividend has a time value so it is less at Buy time.
Personally I would increase CASH with 472, but leave Cost Basis at 2600.
If you take the money out of the machine you could decrease CASH with 472 and Cost Basis with 472. In the perfect world one should adjust Cost Basis with some formula equivalent to the discounting value of the dividend at Buy Time.
Bernie, I have been following you and Conrad's discussion of dividends and their effect on share price. I didn't know Yahoo reported data did as you posted, so thanks for that useful info. I agree with your statements on dividend effect on share price. I have gotten a little confused in your later posts about cost basis. I was under the impression that Ordinary dividends have no effect on Cost basis as far as income tax goes and I looked and I can't seem to find where Lichello recommends any adjustments for dividends. Of course I could have overlooked it easily in the book.
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