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re: The first of the oil majors, COP, cuts the dividend

Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:16 pm to
Posted by lynxcat
Member since Jan 2008
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Posted on 2/4/16 at 11:16 pm to
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Yeah, but it was $3,000. That's the terrible news.



The problem with dividends is that once you give them they become the expectation regress of the business environment.

If I am a CEO, then I am reinvesting the money into my business. If I can't return better returns to shareholders through investing that free cash flow then I need to go back to the drawing board. Yes, this impacts the risk profile of the investment.
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