I've never really understood this stock. Why would anybody want to buy a $50.00 stock that only pays $1.60 dividends per year?
Someone asked why buy a company which has poor divvi's, my answer is just for the greater good.
this company has developed and delivered some/most of the worlds ground breaking humanitrium technology as far as sound and hearing perception for infants through to adults and seniors.
my wife and i had a son 11yrs ago, 3 months premature. downs , aspergers , autism and all the learning and developmental difficulties thrown in and hearing problems to boot. at the time i asked my wife if we could afford a cochlear implant and her response was we cant afford not too!!!!
So my point her is any and all support of companies with this type of product at any price is for the greater good as they immensly improve our existence.
i hear cochlear is on the eve of sight recognition and repair technologies for the blind. they have results in shades of grey and large blocks of of shapes.
conclusion is that i dont have a crystal ball but i rekon cochlear is going to make one for us all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi McCoy,Full year report releasd to the market this morning and despite Cochlear growing NPAT by 16% year-on-year, investors do not want a bar of it, and Cochlear is sold down strongly again today. From a peak of $85.00/share in April, it's down about 25% and still falling.
COH announced a dividend of $1.05/share, with an ex-dividend date of 1 September 2011, to be paid on 22 September 2011. The dividend is franked at 70%.
The decrease in COH's share price brings it a lot closer to the intrinsic value I've calculated but it still exceeds my calculated intrinsic value.
COH announces a voluntary recall of its Nucleus CI500 Cochlear Implant range as a result of an increased failure rate and to allow COH to investigate the causes of the failure. It won't affect those recipients already holding those implants.
COH looks like it will fall at least 12% on open this morning.
ETA - opened at $55.26/share. A drop of 23.4%. Buffett's line about how reputation can be built over 20 years and lost in five minutes never held more sway than this morning, as I believe this is the first time in its history COH has had a product recall.
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