Comments on: What’s Your Margin of Safety?

By: Investing News and Notes | Dividend Money

Investing News and Notes | Dividend Money — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:06:39 +0000

[...] Pitch Financials asks value investors what their “Margin Of Safety” [...]

By: mark

mark — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:29:08 +0000

sorry, I meant for that to be a question suggestion for the VIN poll. I think it would be a good question because it is a little controversial. I’ve heard good arguments for both. thats an interesting concept Nick. i’ve never heard that before. the best arguments I’ve read were somewhere on the motley fool site. I remember Buffett is for buybacks.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:04:20 +0000

If you forget taxes it doesn’t matter if a company buys back stock or pays dividends. That said, a company doesn’t want to risk lowering its dividend so it might prefer to just buy back stock even if the stock isn’t trading at a discount. In my opinion I’d rather have management buy back stock when its cheap and pay me dividends when its not. I’m sure someone else could provide a better answer.

By: mark

mark — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:59:51 +0000

which would you rather have or which is a better use of FCF, buybacks or dividends.