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To: Kaslin
Once, around 1960 or '61, Dad gave me a Christmas present of 90 shares of General Electric stock, worth around $70 a share. What is GE stock trading for these days? Around $20! Why isn't Immelt on unemployment?

Um, let's see ... The stock has split a total of 96 for one since 1960 or '61. So, if Michael had kept his stock, worth $6300 when he got it, he would now have 8640 shares, worth $117,638 dollars as of Friday's close. And that's not counting the steady dividend he would have been receiving in the meantime (currently, his investment would be paying about $4838/yr in dividends, which is an annual yield of about 77% on his original cost).

31 posted on 02/04/2011 7:12:32 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody
worth $117,638 dollars as of Friday's close.

Typo. That should be $177,638.

32 posted on 02/04/2011 7:15:23 PM PST by cynwoody
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