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Re:Steve Ballmer steps down as board member at Microsoft by robotresearcher on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @03:26PM (#8199256)
Very interesting chart. MS matches Dow Jones almost exactly in recent years. NASDAQ did usefully better. On that evidence there's not much reason to invest directly in MS.
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Re:Steve Ballmer steps down as board member at Microsoft by Thrymr on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @03:49PM (#8199398)
> On that evidence there's not much reason to invest directly in MS.

That's a sign of a mature company. There are reasons to invest in companies like that (safety and dividends, for example), but they don't include high growth potential.

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Re:Steve Ballmer steps down as board member at Microsoft by patja on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @06:23PM (#8200144)
Microsoft is part of the DJIA so it should not be too surprising that their movements are pretty well correlated
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