I've been watching this stock too. Some interesting articles on SA regarding it. Just looking at your other tickers, those seem like very solid choices (though in the middle of this correction, I'm sure you're bleeding like the rest of us). As long as you see THG as a more speculative play--though certainly much safer than mine with LINE;-)-- I think the dividend more than compensates for risk here.
MS puts this quarter's Current Ratio at 2.24 and the D/E at 2.47, so there's that to consider. Since 2011 the share count has increased by 7 million (14%), but has held at 57 mil since 2013.
Considering the uncertainly of the world economy, and the tax consequence of ROC rather than dividends if you sell at a profit, I would look at this as a long term holding and allocate only a prudent amount of your portfolio.
Just my thoughts...
Ronn
MS puts this quarter's Current Ratio at 2.24 and the D/E at 2.47, so there's that to consider. Since 2011 the share count has increased by 7 million (14%), but has held at 57 mil since 2013.
Considering the uncertainly of the world economy, and the tax consequence of ROC rather than dividends if you sell at a profit, I would look at this as a long term holding and allocate only a prudent amount of your portfolio.
Just my thoughts...
Ronn