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Intel is growing, just not as much as people expect. That’s how companies now are evaluated. Grow or gtfo.
by systemvoltage 6y ago
Intel is growing, just not as much as people expect.
That’s how companies now are evaluated. Grow or gtfo.
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoDon't even think of trying to pay a dividend or your stock is trash.
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- GlennS 6y agoWhy would you ever pay a dividend when a stock buyback is more tax efficient for US investors?
- ac29 6y agoQualified dividends are taxed at the same rate as capital gains in the US. There are benefits to the tax deferring nature of stock buyback induced capital gains, but there are also benefits to being taxed each year along the way via dividends (such as the risk that capital gains tax will go up in the future). Many companies both pay dividends and do stock buybacks, Intel among them.
- danielmarkbruce 6y agoAlso, think of pension funds, insurance companies and the like - they are huge investors, often pay no tax on dividends, and like the (usual) reliability of dividends so they can pay out cash as needed.
- BeetleB 6y agoIntel actually pays fairly decent dividends. Always has.
- gumby 6y agoBut they aren't in any way in control of their own growth. See my comment a little above, or simply look at their gruesome financials: https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1439/intel-reports-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-2020-financial https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1439/...
- fauigerzigerk 6y agoLooks more lackluster than gruesome to me. But I think they‘re going to have to slash their margins to keep revenue from falling off a cliff when data center ARM chips become competitive.