And you have the added potential of stock appreciation, which is absent with the bonds.
At this point, there is more upside potential based on valuation and potential stock appreciation.
And General Growth's stock appreciation and dividend growth have been tops among REITs (see: " Good Neighbors").
Since its conversion its total return, comprising stock appreciation and dividends, has far exceeded close competitors and the market.
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Its senior managers get Stock Appreciation Rights (SARs), which give the holder the increase in a company's stock value between two dates.
The corporate income tax also reduces any stock appreciation over time before that is again taxed at the level of the recipient.
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Apple has rewarded investors with stock appreciation of over 3, 000% over the last 10 years and over 450% over the past five and the innovation and market leadership continues.
The penalty is part of a new section of the tax code clamping down on salary and bonus deferrals, executive retirement and benefit plans, severance packages, discounted stock options and even stock appreciation rights.
Apple's stock appreciation since 2004 is roughly 2, 300%.
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The expediency of bulk-leasing negotiations may explain why, despite the theory of a few years ago that the Internet would turn malls into dustbins, mall REITs in general have scored higher total returns (stock appreciation plus dividends) than other kinds of property trusts.
The result was the lowest annual stock price appreciation of the 1940-1999 span, a paltry 1.60%.
That growth often leads to government stability, currency strength and increased corporate profits, resulting in stock price appreciation and investment gains.
What most investors fail to recognize is that economic growth and stock market appreciation are only loosely correlated in the short term.
First, as noted above, the change in the inflation rate explains 76% of the variance in the rate of stock price appreciation, but that leaves 24% to be determined by assorted other factors.
It is by no means clear that promoting long-run appreciation in stock prices ought to be an objective of the Open Market Committee.
At some point, perhaps soon, and perhaps as a consequence of Asian investors feeling that they have a surfeit of Japanese stock exposure, yen appreciation will give way to depreciation.
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The advantage to this strategy: Lewis would convert ordinary income into lower-taxed capital gain, and he would participate in continued price appreciation in the stock.
Basically, when the put-call ratio reverses from extreme negative readings and begins to reflect optimism, it is associated with subsequent price appreciation in the underlying stock.
The appreciation bucket can be mostly stock or an ownership stake in a company.
He and his family made billions from appreciation in Wal-Mart stock.
There are fears that the economy has simply lurched from depending on increasing stock prices to relying on house price appreciation to fuel growth and that the longer this goes on, the stiffer the price Americans will pay when the bubble pops.
But a stock with a low price to book, some revenue or earnings growth, and some price appreciation, might attract interest from practitioners of 3 different investment styles so it would rank higher than the stock that just appeals to value investors.
We assume you are buying a growth stock and that half of its return comes as price appreciation and half comes as dividends.
Yen appreciation since then has helped to offset the complementary stock price declines suffered by exporters.
And seeing how cheap the stock is leads us to believe that few investors have adequate appreciation for the strong economics of the WWE business.
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You may or may not be familiar with the concept of Net Unrealized Appreciation (NUA) as it relates to company stock owned in your 401(k) plan.
This would make Warren Buffett more rich on paper and increase his appreciation, but not his taxes until he sells the stock.
Also, if it bought Phipps Inc. stock, Gray could get stuck paying gains taxes on Phipps' unrealized appreciation if it sold down the road.
The Board believes that this considerable price appreciation, and the associated reduction in number of shares of stock covered by equity awards we issue to newly hired and existing employees, has reduced the perceived attractiveness of our employee equity awards.
For investors, this means that buying a commodity for future price appreciation generally provides a surer road to riches than buying a mining stock.
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