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On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 04:18:29AM +0000, Simon Waters wrote: > > As noted in the Information Week article, Microsoft shares haven't been > an especially good investment since the heady days of the late 90's, so > it is probably more to do with keeping share holder confidence than > value that has persuaded him to keep so many for so long. > > Microsoft are cash rich, so pay regular dividends, and are seen "safe" > by analysts (although I think that might be overstated, since they are > dependent on a relative small number of products for the bulk of their > revenue). > Last time I looked and please be careful with the following as some of their sections have changed in definition but I thought the trend interesting Operating income (loss) 31 Dec 06 30 Sep 10 Windows & Windows Live Division 1,838 3,323 Server and Tools 981 1,630 Online Services Division -118 -560 Microsoft Business Division 2,152 3,388 Entertainment and Devices Division -302 382 Corporate-level activity -1,079 -1,047 Consolidated 3,472 7,116 Figures are in USD m for the three months ending on the dates specified. Operating income excludes items such as tax and is not formally defined in the way "Profit" is. Data is at http://www.microsoft.com/investor/default.aspx. Looking at which I need to update the spreadsheet for the December quarter and read their results. The only argument I can think is that some corporates, councils and Governments prefer to pay the premium to MS. -- Henry Photocopies or faxes of my signature are not binding. This email has been signed with an electronic signature in accordance with subsection 7(3) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000. Digital Key Signature: GPG RSA 0xFB447AA1 or 0x3184D537 Tue Feb 22 06:39:12 GMT 2011
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