Comments on: Tech Stocks Off the Deep End: But Ignore the Panic http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081006/tech-stocks-off-the-deep-end-but-ignore-the-panic/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:03:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Weekend Update, 10/10/08 | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081006/tech-stocks-off-the-deep-end-but-ignore-the-panic/#comment-5005 Weekend Update, 10/10/08 | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:48:32 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/?p=4856#comment-5005 [...] by panic selling and wet-your-pants fear, it was one of the worst weeks in the financial world’s history — a week that cut the [...] [...] by panic selling and wet-your-pants fear, it was one of the worst weeks in the financial world’s history — a week that cut the [...]

]]> By: Tom Mar http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081006/tech-stocks-off-the-deep-end-but-ignore-the-panic/#comment-4912 Tom Mar Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:11:33 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/?p=4856#comment-4912 Perhaps investors will, once again, look toward dividends? After all, isn't that supposed to be the point in investing? Return to shareholders? Perhaps the days of outsized "return to executives" is over in tech, too. I can see an investor revolt bringing down tech valuations a lot further. A few decades ago, yield was an important criteria. Perhaps it will again. ORCL? CSCO? AMZN? For example, all mature companies, that should start giving it back to their investors, as opposed to their executives. After seeing the biggest investment banks in the world going up in smoke, how much trust *should* an investor put in a tech company? After all, many are always a competitor's innovation, or a heartbeat, away from irrelevance. DEC? SUNW? Silicon Graphics? CRAY? CPQ? Netscape? YHOO? Perhaps investors will, once again, look toward dividends? After all, isn’t that supposed to be the point in investing? Return to shareholders? Perhaps the days of outsized “return to executives” is over in tech, too. I can see an investor revolt bringing down tech valuations a lot further. A few decades ago, yield was an important criteria. Perhaps it will again.

ORCL? CSCO? AMZN? For example, all mature companies, that should start giving it back to their investors, as opposed to their executives.

After seeing the biggest investment banks in the world going up in smoke, how much trust *should* an investor put in a tech company? After all, many are always a competitor’s innovation, or a heartbeat, away from irrelevance. DEC? SUNW? Silicon Graphics? CRAY? CPQ? Netscape? YHOO?

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