Staples, Inc. Message Board

http://www.gurufocus.com/news/136866/weekly-guru-bargains-highlights-yoku-tex-hcbk-rimm-spls

weekly GURU bargains- with SPLS being 90%+ owned by institutions- SPLS has attracted - even recently considerable investment capital from some very astute investors.

At this point many things could benefit the stock- an outright purchase by a Buffet (see "Is Staples a Buffet stock" or an LBO - the coming consolidation in the industry (merge od and om), increased cost savings......back to school- its not an 'exciting' stock - but it does offer great value with a divi - (like you said) - that, alone- pays more than bank cds.....

on top of that - spls is experiencing bullishly biased price friction (stock moving up - even as more selling than buying occurs) - see fridays results- dow down 119 - spls moving UP

but what im most interested in - is when od and om - either merge or get taken out-will be sweet for spls and add a couple bucks to its value very quickly-

and they have been consistently INCREASING their dividend on top of that.........

absolutely- a nice divi- on top of everything else- good to point that out........

You're totally right. Staples has the history and money to back up their dividend. I'm not worried and in fact am going long the stock tomorrow. I actually just made a blog post about with chart analysis in case anyone's interested.

http://stockwatchpro.wordpress.com/

You are right. Their balance sheet is very strong and SPLS is returning ~32% of their EPS to shareholders in dividends. In addition, EPS in 2011 will be ~10% higher than in 2010. Their dividend isn't going anywhere - if it does change it should go up to reflect the increase in EPS.

You are comparing this to a bank CD, are you freaking serious? What bank cd looses chunks of principal every day this dog stock goes down?
The two investment instruments are on different planets much less belonging in a comparison like that. Totally irresponsible.