Howard Silverblatt Quotes (24 Quotes)

It's all a risk-reward trade-off.

Investors want it institutions want it, and companies are starting to react.

We have already started to see some consumer resistance on high oil prices and this is obviously going to increase, and it will hurt consumer spending.

The bottom line is that the problem has definitely gotten worse. If this goes on much longer, it's not going to be just an investor concern, it's going to be a retiree concern.

Oil prices are going nowhere but up and so we believe that earnings are going to go south. It does cast a doubt over whether earnings growth for the rest of the year will be at double-digit levels.

We believe this project will have a significant impact on evaluations, income and balance sheets, and will become the major issue in financial accounting over the next five years.

I would definitely agree that numbers are cleaner than they've been in several years. But a decade I don't know.

Unlike pensions, which are regulated, OPEB has no legal requirement to create a trust entity to fund the current and future costs. Additionally, specific tax treatments and credits set up to encourage pension funding do not exist for OPEB funds.

The question now is what are you going to do with it. Many companies now have the rare opportunity to make long-term investments or return large values back to shareholders while still having sufficient cash left to grow and finance their business.

For the companies, to bring the money back at this rate was a no-brainer, ... Even if they were not planning to make use of the money immediately, when faced with the option of tapping the funds at a 5 percent tax instead of 35 percent, most of them just decided to do it -- it makes sense.

Right now, we're looking at the 16th straight quarter of double-digit profits. We've seen broad gains, not for the entire world, but it's going to be a very decent quarter.

While the magnitude is troublesome, the inability to compute and compare issue information is alarming.

It would be nice if it turned out we were wrong again, that our forecasts for the second quarter were also too pessimistic, but unfortunately, I don't think that's going to be the case, ... With the ongoing currency situation, higher oil prices, and the more difficult comparisons year-over-year, a slowdown is to be expected.

These shares have not been retired. They sit in the corporate treasury, where, subject to regulator timing, they can be reissued at the discretion of the company.

It makes a difference when you look at a company with 14 percent growth as opposed to 8 percent growth.

The idea that they would pay a dividend was a changing of the guard.

Investors are looking for total return and a more conservative approach. Dividend stocks have a lot lower risk. The dividend acts like an anchor. In good times, the stock doesn't go up as much, but in bad times, it doesn't go down as much.

It's still very good growth, considering. And again, there's nothing wrong with repurchases.

The cost of oil will likely still be pretty high, consumer spending is slowing down, and it'll be tax time.

It'll downshift just a little bit. But there's nothing wrong with that. You can't expect 20 percent profit growth forever.

Given the historically slow pace of change for dividends, the growth in dividend payers since January 2003 has been remarkable. Unlike the prior 20 years when the number of paying issues actually declined by 25, since the start of 2003 the number of paying issues within the SP 500 issues has risen by 10 to 386. For the remainder of 2006, we expect a continuation in both dividend increases and initiations among SP 500 constituents, resulting in another double-digit gain in dividend payments.

You don't want to pay for 13 percent growth when you're only getting 8 percent.

In the first quarter, people made the mistake of looking at how a few groups did as indicative of the whole sector, ... For this period, you really can't do that.

Either show the results or give it back to us.