20. CEOs of S&P 500 companies are entitled to receive an average of $22 million upon being fired, according to GMI. “In total, it would cost shareholders $10.8 billion to fire the CEOs of all of the companies in the S&P 500,” it writes.
19. One percent of households captured 52% of all income gains from [...]
10. Home Depot (HD)
Market Cap: $46.3 billion
Dividend: $0.96
Yield: 3.4%
Barely edging out McDonald’s(MCD) (MCD) for the number 10 spot is Home Depot(HD) with a 3.4% dividend yield.
This home improvement retailer has surpassed earnings estimates each of the last four quarters, and is providing investors with 96 cents per share annually with its dividend. While its stock [...]
Most Expensive Television
PrestigeHD Supreme Rose Edition by Stuart Hughes
Price: $2.3 million*
Swiss luxury television maker PrestigeHD asked Stuart Hughes of Goldstriker International to design a spectacular piece for the company, says Hughes. So he took a 55-inch PrestigeHD television and covered it in 28 kilograms of 18-carat rose gold and 72 diamonds. Alligator skin was hand [...]
10. "A ham sandwich could run Coca-Cola."
Believe it or not, that’s a compliment to Coke. It speaks to why it’s Berkshire Hathaway’s biggest stock holding. As Peter Lynch put it, "Go for a business that any idiot can run — because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it."
9. Margin of [...]