Category Archives: YCharts
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Applied Materials’ Battered Stock: Time to Buy?
Applied Materials (AMAT), the nation’s biggest maker of semiconductor-fabrication equipment, has one of the richest dividend yields among major technology companies., including Microsoft (MSFT), Intel (INTC), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Oracle (ORCL) and Apple (AAPL), which later this summer begins paying a quarterly dividend. INTC Dividend Yield data by YCharts Since initiating a dividend in 2005, Applied [...]
Off Topic: The Future of Groupon
Let’s say you and your best buddy from college decided to launch a me-too business patterned after Groupon (GRPN), and after two years of 80-hour weeks pounding on local merchants’ doors, and flogging your deals online, your annual revenue run rate was up to about $750,000. Oh, and you’d taken on two support workers to [...]