{"id":20164,"date":"2011-03-16T14:59:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T18:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=20164"},"modified":"2011-03-16T14:59:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T18:59:11","slug":"microsoft-should-increase-its-dividend-by-139-says-soleil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/03\/16\/microsoft-should-increase-its-dividend-by-139-says-soleil\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft should increase its dividend by 139%, says Soleil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soleil believes Microsoft should match the 56% free cash flow payout  ratio of its large-cap peers and raise its dividend by 139%. If  Microsoft were to pay out 56% of free cash flow, Soleil notes, the  company would increase its dividends to $1.51 per share, implying a  share price of $41. Soleil believes a higher dividend is a better  corporate policy than buybacks in the current environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soleil believes Microsoft should match the 56% free cash flow payout ratio of its large-cap peers and raise its dividend by 139%. If Microsoft were to pay out 56% of free cash flow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}