| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 297.1 | Yes It Is? | WFOV11::CERVONE | | Wed Oct 21 1992 13:27 | 9 |
| Yes it is! Disney's stock I believe you get up to 40% off Hotels,
admission, etc. when you vacation at Disneyworld or Disneyland, plus a
discount at the Disney stores.
What do we get with the purchase of dec stock, well we get a right off
on our taxes do to a loss in profit if you dont sell every six months
during the buy periods.
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| 297.2 | Kodak | AIMENG::AIM002::grinnell | | Wed Oct 21 1992 17:51 | 2 |
| Add Kodak to list the list of companies that will do free
dividend reinvestment (there are a lot of these)
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| 297.3 | | TUXEDO::YANKES | | Thu Oct 22 1992 10:22 | 7 |
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What's the details on the Radio Shack plan? Any minimum number of
shares (greater than 1, that is ;-) that has to be owned? On what date
is the stock ownership list used to generate the coupon mailings?
Thanks!
-craig
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| 297.4 | Radio Shack or Tandy (SAME)? | WFOV11::CERVONE | | Thu Oct 22 1992 13:40 | 10 |
| Radio Shack or Tandy which is it - In Sept. In Money magazine there was a
good right up on Tandy. It stated that it was going to go up in price
by over 50%.
Are these one and the same or are they two different stocks on NYSE?
The stock was at 23 3/8 in early Sept it closed yesterday at 26 1/2
-3/4. I think Tandy will do well in the next 12 to 18 months as was
predicted in Money Mag.
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| 297.5 | TANDY == Radio Shack | SATIRE::MATATIA | | Fri Oct 23 1992 08:11 | 8 |
| Its not a coupon its a letter thats mailed out. Yes its actually TANDY
corp. (Don't confuse it with TANDY crafts which was doing well and had
some profit taking yesterday). You take the letter to the radio shack
dealer for the discount (surrendering the letter). Usually companies
do not differ between 1 share and xxx shares....an owner is an owner.
But if you want to be sure check with the company.
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| 297.6 | | SFC01::SFC04::SMITHP | Written but not read | Fri Oct 23 1992 18:46 | 2 |
| Whats the deal on Disney and who do you contact?
Whats the diff between street name and your name?
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| 297.7 | | BRAT::REDZIN::DCOX | | Sat Oct 24 1992 08:37 | 25 |
| The "deal" on Disney is that stockholders get a "card" and are in the
Magic Kingdom Club. The card is good for 10% discounts in Disney
retail stores scattered throughout the country as well as in retail
stores at their resorts. The club members enjoy discounts on rooms &
admission at the parks as well as discounts on Cruise packages and
National rental cars. At the annual meeting, you get an extra room
discount, but the base price is so bloody high that it tends to
discourage middle income investors from staying there.
You buy Disney stock through a broker. Disney used to have a dividend
re-investment plan which was nice in principal but poor in interest -
pun intended; they are a growth company with miniscule dividends per
share. Disney is an EXTREMELY well managed company; unlike some we are
intimately familiar with. They take a hard-nosed approach to customer
satisfaction, revenues and expenses (sigh.....). Our initial investment
in Disney has doubled in about 5 years which is a very good, although not
fantastic, ROI.
In my opinion, "freebies" should be treated just as that and should not
be a factor in making investment decisions. Unless, of course, you can
PLAN on realizing savings through those freebies and then that would
factor into the ROI. But most people do not buy enough at the Disney
stores to fit into that category.
Dave
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| 297.8 | Wait on Walt | VMSDEV::HALLYB | Fish have no concept of fire. | Sun Oct 25 1992 08:00 | 7 |
| BTW if you are planning to buy DISney I suggest a year from now would
be a better time than right now. Likely we'll see another recession
next summer as Clinton tries to get the medicine out of the way early
in his administration so the economy is booming in time for 1996.
Which would be bad news for all Disneyland sales. All IMHO, of course.
John
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| 297.9 | New Plan Realty | LEDS::VESESKIS | | Tue Oct 27 1992 17:50 | 6 |
|
New Plan Realty, a REIT, has a DRP that gives you 15% off on
subsequent purchases under the plan. Not really a perk, more like a
bonus. Trades on the NYSE.
Ken
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| 297.10 | Disney Stocks a good gift for kids | MEMORY::BEAULIEU | | Mon Nov 02 1992 11:31 | 7 |
| Another comment about Disney: I read that Disney stock certificates
have pictures of Disney characters on them. ( I believe I read this in
an article that Money magazine did this year on the subject of perks
which I will try to find and add to this note). Anyway, these
certificates make an interesting gift for children ... not only are
they fun to look at but the kids can follow thier stock in the paper as
well.
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| 297.11 | Disney stock ... not FOR KIDS ONLY | DABEAN::NEARY | Bob Neary | Mon Nov 02 1992 12:37 | 8 |
| Yes it does. (Or at least it used to.) Mine has about a dozen
characters on it in color, surrounding Walt's face. The rest of the
certificate is blueish in color. A relative bought me one share in
1985 since I collect Disney stuff ...(paid about $50 then).
It's funny, since I got that one and have told other people, I know
about 20 people who have bought one share.
FYI, in the annual report I remember reading that 60-65% of the owners
of Disney stock own only one share.
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| 297.12 | Celtics | ROCK::MURPHY | | Mon Nov 02 1992 16:39 | 7 |
| As a recent Boston arrival, I was thinking of duplicating the aforementioned
one share gift strategem for Celtics shares. If I wanted to give out, say 4 or
5 single share gifts, does anyone know how I could minimize my commission costs?
Murph
rock::murphy
dtn 225-4964
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| 297.13 | One purchase got all..then deliver each | DABEAN::NEARY | Bob Neary | Mon Nov 02 1992 17:05 | 4 |
| My brother-in-law bought several shares for his kids as a
custodian,then after the sale had them delivered indiviually in each of
the kids names.
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