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-Time to torture test the iPod Touch. Winter is coming so there's a chance you could leave your gadgets in your cold, cold car. That's what these 2 hours in the freezer is about to simulate. Oh, look so pretty. Alright, see you later little buddy. Alright, let's get this bad boy out of the freezer, see how it's doing. Note, we have our product red iPod Touch. Of course, you know this does go to charity to help with [unk]. Okay, so, everything seems to be working, really wants to get on the WiFi. The home button is a little sluggish, but it is working. So, I would say if you do leave your iPad in the car in the frozen tundra, it's gonna be all right. Oh, I need to change the song. Oh, no! Oh, no! My iPod. Oh, my iPod did not like that, sort things out so I can hear myself talking, yeah. We have damage. We have some little plastic poking out the side. You haven't seen. That was really realistic by the way. I have done that a bunch of times, but just creating that crack, hope that it comes on. Screen comes on, still functional. I'm surprised actually that the home button is still functional because it's coming apart badly at the bottom here, but it goes. The best sets it out. I wish this do a normal graph now. Well, that was dramatic, but I still think we should try it again. Oh, my iPod. Oh, it's so tricky. It fell. Okay, well, that was a little less force. We still have this little screw really wanted to come out. No damage to the camera that I can tell. Let's push that back in. Oh, yeah, screen is all messed up, all lines there. So, now, we have pretty much busted the touchscreen. It's no longer responding to any touch at all. I confess that I hurled it to the ground, but that is not okay for $300 for 2 drops to completely destroy this thing. Well, it is starting to rain. I was gonna dumping this in a paddle for the water test, but I don't think there's any point in that. I think it sustained so much damage in our drop test that it's pretty much gone. We manage too well and truly kill our red iPod Touch, but I don't wanna deprive of the full gantlet of torture test. So, we bought another one and we're about to put it in the oven. Once again, this is simulating what might happen if you left your iPod in a hot car for a while. Now, we do a little hotter. Then, your car is gonna get 200 degrees, but only for an hour, only, huh. Good luck iPod. Time to rescue the iPod, all right. Oh, I hope it's okay. I can smell it, not-- unlike a yummy bread way either and totally toxic. I can't believe I do this in my own home way. I don't see any obvious melting. All right, not even angry temperature warnings. I'm just gonna let it cool off for a little bit. Oh, that was hot and see if it comes back to life. So, I accidentally bump it while I was seeing if it was cool and it gave me a temperature warning, but now it looks like it's just coming on and trying to Siri me. I was hoping I will get the temperature warning again. It must have been a relic, but it looks like it is back on definitely on the WiFi, seems pretty responsive after about 10 minutes of cooking, which is not surprising because it's really thin. It's not like it's gonna retain a lot of heat. I would say iPod Touch has not problem with hot test. So, it seemed to only obvious for the iPod torture test that the wild card should be giving the iPod to children and asking them to not be carefully while they play games and have snacks. So, I have Sam and Ella and Dash and Elli, and you guys are all gonna play games, right? On our fancy iPods. -Yeah. -So, I wanna tell you the rules. -But which [unk]. -I know you're gonna have to share and then there's a rule for today. Okay. So, while you're drinking your juice and eating chips and fruit and pizza and playing with iPod. I want you to not be careful. -Yeah. -That's right. -I remember that rule. -Don't be careful. -Alright, are you guys hungry? -Yeah. -Yeah. -You wanna play some-- And you wanna play some games. -Yeah. -Okay. -Now, don't forget to share. -And you grab this out. -Go, I'm gonna get out your way and let you put-- Oh, good job, good job. Follow Elli, go, go, go-- run, run, run. Good job. Stupor. Yeah, towards to the cap. -I will play with this. -All right guys, now, we're gonna play a pretty crazy game. -Hello. -I know. -We're gonna put the 2 iPods on this plastic, and then we're gonna. -I want that kind of plastic, cool. -I know this is totally yours. It came from your house. -Yup. -And then we're gonna spill juice on them. -With that-- -Put them in the middle and let's go get our juice. -We have to turn this off. -We should turn them on actually. It's much more-- Oh, that's a sticky iPod, wow, okay. Ready. Oh, we got the video playing. That's excellent, okay. Run over and spill your juice on the phones. Good job. One more. Yeah. Oh, Dash, you wanna try it? -Yeah, cool. -Oh, disaster, good job everybody. All right everyone, take a break, back up. -They're still okay. -They're still okay. Look, they are still going. Look super [unk] still playing. Do you think they are pretty tough? -Yeah, I also too. -I mean, you jump on them and throw on and look, they are so cool. Alright, we're gonna get them out and try them off. You guys can take a break and have some snacks, okay. Great job everyone. -Oh, you can just lie down. -I might have to lie down. I'm exhausted after that. Good job guys. Look at that. We have 2 juice soaked Cheeto encrusted greased covered iPod Touch at least at this second totally still entertaining children. -Oh yeah.
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Market Capitalization (May 2012) | Stocks with Positive Total Return | Number of Stocks | Percent | Total Return Estimate |
$20+ Billion | 257 | 302 | 85% | 19.6% |
1000-20000 million | 1424 | 1755 | 81% | 23.5% |
500-1000 million | 388 | 547 | 71% | 19.5% |
250-500 million | 357 | 545 | 66% | 21.6% |
100-250 million | 457 | 710 | 64% | 23.9% |
10-100 million | 795 | 1423 | 56% | 84.9% |
Total | 3678 | 5282 | 70% | 21.0% |
Source: Data provided by Zacks.com for May 18, 2012 and April 18, 2013, Author Calculations. Total return is calculated as dividend yield at May 2012 plus price appreciation.
So the case for mega cap stocks is even stronger, it was pretty hard to pick a loser eleven months ago. In fact, if you chose five stocks with market capitalizations over $20 billion, these statistics show that there was only .01% chance that all five would be losers. However, the ease of doing so increases as the market capitalization declines. But for those investigating the micro caps, the rewards can be enormous. The second screen is to group stocks by dividend yield.
Dividend Group (May 2012) | Stocks with Positive Total Return | Number of Stocks | Percent | Number with Price Appreciation | Percent | Total Return | Price Appreciation |
No Dividend | 1771 | 3018 | 59% | 1771 | 59% | 15.8% | 15.8% |
0 -1% | 226 | 263 | 86% | 225 | 86% | 25.9% | 25.3% |
1 -2 % | 395 | 488 | 81% | 387 | 79% | 20.0% | 18.5% |
2 - 5% | 889 | 1042 | 85% | 834 | 80% | 22.3% | 19.0% |
5 - 7.5% | 223 | 260 | 86% | 214 | 82% | 22.9% | 17.2% |
7.5 - 10% | 98 | 116 | 84% | 90 | 78% | 29.0% | 20.6% |
10% + | 75 | 95 | 79% | 62 | 65% | 17.7% | 4.6% |
Source: Data provided by Zacks.com for May 18, 2012 and April 18, 2013, Author Calculations. Total return is calculated as dividend yield at May 2012 plus price appreciation.
This second table is interesting for several reasons and is also important for highlighting a challenge in the methodology. The first observation is that dividend paying stocks outperform non-dividend paying stocks. Note that many of the smaller market capitalization stocks fall into this category. The next observation is that with performance, especially in terms of price appreciation, there is some bias towards higher yielding stocks. This does raise the issue of whether there is systematic bias towards higher dividend yields. If people are creating more demand for these stocks than others, it might result in an overvaluation. The nice counter is that the 1-2% dividend yield stocks actually had the highest level of price appreciation and the second highest total return estimate.
The final observation is also linked to a methodology concern. As noted, the total return estimate is based upon the dividend yield in May 2012 plus the price appreciation. If the dividends are not paid as expected, whether it is cut or increased, the actual total return would be different from the estimate used. This would also include stocks that began paying dividends since May 2012.
AAPL is a notable company in this group; however, its dividend would not offset the stock price decline. Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NLY) is an example of a company that has since cut its dividend. On May 18, 2012, the stock closed at $16.15 and had been paying a quarterly of dividend of $0.55 per quarter for a yield of 13.6% - very attractive. However, the company subsequently cut the dividend to a current rate of $0.45 per quarter for an estimated annual yield of 11.4%. This means that the actual return was 9.5% instead of the estimated return of 11.1%. In some cases, this would shift the percentages of stocks with positive returns a little, but not much. It should also be noted that some stocks, like AAPL, have estimated returns that are below their actual returns.
This issue is important when one looks at the last group of stocks with 10+% yields. Most of these stocks had relatively low overall returns and most of that return was embedded in the dividends. This highlights the risk of chasing yield. I've long been a skeptic of companies like Frontier Communications Inc. (FTR) for these reasons.
Lessons for Investors
I had initially started doing this analysis to try to see if there has been bias towards dividend yield stocks. Are they becoming overvalued? I raised this question in an earlier article, and subsequently markets have performed quite nicely. Since that article, the SPDR S&P 500 Trust ETF (SPY) is up from $139.35 to Friday's close of $155.48, a gain of 12% before dividends. Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) climbed from $69.12 to $84.49 for a nice gain of 22% and delivered $1.83 of dividends (3 quarterly payments since August 6, 2012). In contrast, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is down about 4%, but did pay $2.55 in dividends, with another dividend coming shortly. While this analysis notes some concern, I definitely would not consider it to show a conclusive bias towards higher yields. I found a very low correlation between returns and yields based on the data pulled with a linear regression despite the averages noted earlier.
Beware of very high yields - I do think the very highest dividend yields should raise concerns though, and require a thorough examination of how sustainable that dividend is and appreciation for the notion that your principal might not appreciate very much and in fact, could very easily decline. A simple question to ask is whether the yield is high because the stock price is declining or because the dividend is growing.
Risk and return - If you threw a dart at the Wall Street Journal on May 18, 2012, you most likely picked a winning stock. However, this doesn't necessarily mean that you were adequately compensated for the risks you took. Nor does it say anything about the future performance of that stock. Picking individual stocks is tough and requires good research. Warren Buffett espouses his margin of safety - this is an approach designed to manage investing risk.
Euphoria and caution - The stock market has done quite well recently and there is still a lot of money on the sideline, meaning that there is still upward fuel. However, I still think there are challenges ahead for investors. Over the next year, there might be upward pressure from money entering the market that results in price outpacing fundamental performance. This would be a concern. In my own investing, I've been letting my cash reserves grow with very limited additions to stocks. I had even sold some positions back in the Fall of 2012.
Over the past eleven months, investors have been able to print profits. It almost didn't matter whether they bought dividend stocks, high yield, low yield, no yield or any range of sizes of stocks. Any reasonably diversified portfolio since May 18, 2012 has performed well. However, the word printing was used deliberately since it links to paper. Paper profits are nice, but they can also disappear as some AAPL investors have been learning.
Disclaimer: This article is for informational and educational purposes only and shall not be construed to constitute investment advice. Nothing contained herein shall constitute a solicitation, recommendation or endorsement to buy or sell any security.


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Only a company who is being threatened by BlackBerry10 would do something like this. If you can go and tweet at Nokia and expose their BS. Only if you want, I did it other than that let me know what you think of this? Can Nokia Lumia be a business phone, it looks to me like a Camera with a phone attached to it, not like the rest of the phones that is the other way around.
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- 02-04-2013, 10:11 AM Thread Author #4
Of course, they CAN be business phone. But are they a worthy and a good business phone. If I see someone walk into a meeting with a BlackBerry versus a Lumia, I have different perception of the person. Maybe that is my bias, but do others feel the same?
RE: Nokia attacks BlackBerry on Twitter, #teamblackberry lets fight back
It's called competition. If you want the z10 to be one of the big guys, you have to play the game and you will be beat up.
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RE: Nokia attacks BlackBerry on Twitter, #teamblackberry lets fight back
And exactly what differentiates blackberrys from other phones after bb10? Not much after reading about bb10 losing features.
As for the LUMIA, not Lumina, it has office built in but pretty ****ty PDF support. Take what you will from it.
Can you tell me what business features BB10 has now for business that the others don't now? Please tell me
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Why is it that whenever BlackBerry gets bashed we immediately come to the rescue? Yet if BlackBerry did the bashing it would be completely fine? If you want to show your support, buy from BlackBerry. You don't need to actively advocate your ideals by plaguing your opinions all over the internet. You are not some sort of space cowboy and you have better things you could be doing with your time.
- 02-04-2013, 10:22 AM Thread Author #9
There is a whole brand perception behind BlackBerry. I work in downtown Toronto at one of the 5 major banks, and not sure about other cities, but many people here attribute BlackBerrys to business acumen. Also, the security is what is awesome for business that others don't have. My company is setting up BB Balance and that is another good business feature. Also, I have four emails two personal and two work because I work for two areas. I have a dev alpha and BlackBerry Hub takes care of this so well.
mine: @nokia WP8 next to iOS is the furthest from a power user's device as you can get. Cute camera though.
It's business, it's competition, Nokia are doing EXACTLY what they should be doing and Blackberry ought to start taking potshots at some of their big rivals too.
Not sure if this is a new trend where you guys scurry over to CB to try to raise indignation over any small issue.
I don't see this 'BS' you're complaining about, anyway. - 02-04-2013, 04:22 PM #14
Nokia ,copysome trying to knock BB.We went into odin sleep for 2 years drop a hot phone and the Sh1t talking comes out.How you bad mouth us we just came out again :lmao.This is poor from nokia thought they had class but looks like they really have fallen titan 2 times now.Gues titan gonna hate on a olympian.BB just need to stay in their lane keep it moving no need to scoop this low this is sad these other guys look like bitches looking for attention its quite sad.It aint your time settle down we gave you 2 free years.Now you pull b1tch moves you had years to show us where was it. Just ignore this and keep it moving BB.
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Only a company who sold more phones then Blackberry can ever dream of and who has a huge rival to the Z10. Former biggest phone manufacturer in the entire world. And not someone to dismiss lightly.
Also OP this is is the first i've heard of it, i doubt we should highlight the issue and do Nokia's job for them in promoting itPrimary Device: Moto X
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Poor guys, after what they have seen with BB10 they know that are doomed.
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