If the business is good, they are making a product that people want or need, and they have a history of
rewarding shareholders then I feel the odds are good that I will make money on that investment.
Not exact matches
Since
then, he's improved the railway's operating ratio (an important measurement of efficiency)-- and
shareholders have been
rewarded in the process: CP's stock closed on Tuesday 153 per cent above where it was trading when Harrison was appointed.
3 But if you subscribe to the simple activist -
shareholder model, in which activists (1) identify underperforming companies, (2) buy up those companies» (cheap) stock, (3) push the companies to improve, and
then (4) reap (a portion of) the
rewards of that improvement, what do you think about this development?
Working my butt off for 50 + hours per week for years on end only to see a highly likely cut in my commission checks and
then seeing the payouts in the companies I'm invested in rise relentlessly year after year no matter how crappy of a
shareholder I am in real life allows for an interesting contrast and really opens ones eyes: being a
shareholder is much more
rewarding with much less work required.
And
then you take that money and invest it in great businesses that
reward shareholders with growing cash dividend payments.