What Did You Buy Today?

[Otter]

(04-03-2020, 09:58 AM)fenders53 Wrote:

(04-03-2020, 09:48 AM)stockguru Wrote:

(04-03-2020, 09:39 AM)fenders53 Wrote:

(04-03-2020, 09:23 AM)Otter Wrote:

(04-03-2020, 09:21 AM)fenders53 Wrote: I predict you will enjoy your Raytheon ownership more the Divmenow or I have.    I am curious about the dividend.  They implied it wouldn't be decreased.  Spinoffs complicate it.  I'm sure they send CARR and Otis on their way with P&J sammitches and $5 in cash lol.  I think it will be a little better than RTN was paying.      

I saw that Corona article last might.  It's temporary of course.

Merger/spinoffs left a bad taste in my mouth after the disaster that was Dow and DuPont merging and then splitting into three companies. I will probably never make my money back on that one. 

I don't think that'll be an issue with RTX, as their board doesn't appear to be staffed with crooks.

I've had mixed results with spin offs.  I usually sell them because I only have a few hundred dollars in shares if that.  YUM comes to mind.  I received some YUM shares valued at about $12 IIRC (PEP spinoff long ago).   That would have been a good hold despite their recent troubles.  United didn't spin off junk.  Those are solid market leading brands.  Not telling anyone to buy them, but it isn't trash, just an attempt to focus the new merger.

Dow and Dupont were a failure waiting to happen.  Those are dead markets there in. Dupont is a dinosaur. UTX and RTN are a good marriage and the CEO is very good. I'm not worried about that at all. RTN has contracts going out years and they will continue to excel. UTX brands will take some time to come back. But at $50 a share I can wait. This will be over $100 at some point.  And please don't put IIRC is the same sentence as RTN.  I can name a lot of mergers that have gone well. I dont dwell on the bad ones 

Chemicals have not gone out of style.  Manufacturing depends on them.  We just don't need any manufacturing right now lol.  

Large CAP mergers require considerable skill.  They usually struggle for a year or more.  Then there is T.  You heard of them lol?  I cringe every time they buy something.  CSCO used to be the king of M&A.  They figured out you just buy anyone that threatens you while they are tiny.  I swear they used to buy 10 companies a year.  Integrate 2/3rds, flush the other 1/3 and make them go away.   

Let's not forget the bigliest large cap merger wealth creator of all time . . . AOL TimeWarner. LOL