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EBay and Amgen: Dividends do Matter

William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Dear Fellow Investors: We are owners of both EBay (EBAY) and Amgen (AMGN). We believe the dividend policy and price action in the shares of these two companies can teach us about stock price performance over the

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The Great Scarcity: Stockpicking

William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Dear Fellow Investors: As the chart below shows, correlations among the S&P 500 Index companies was the highest on October 10th of 2011 as it has been for 25 years. In the opinion of Smead Capital Management,

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No One to Answer To

William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Dear Fellow Investors: Two watershed events were announced in the last two weeks. First, Warren Buffett disclosed a massive amount of open market purchases of US large-cap stocks. Second, Legg Mason announced that Bill Miller is “stepping

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Grease (Greece) is the Word

William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Dear Fellow Investors: Everything you need to know about today’s circumstance in the US stock market is covered in the theme song to the movie, Grease.           I solve my problems and I see the light          

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Chinese Banks are Imitating Washington Mutual

William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Dear Fellow Investors: Once upon a time there was a bank based in Seattle, Washington called Washington Mutual. The bank grew by acquisitions in the 1990’s and enjoyed the prosperity of the United States of America. It

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The Blessing of Hitting the Skids First

William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Dear Fellow Investors: They say that to make significant improvements or permanently change behavior you have to hit bottom. Once you hit bottom, you have to want to change. There is a special blessing in hitting bottom

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Money Manager Pride Goeth Before Destruction

William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Dear Fellow Investors: At Smead Capital Management we have made it a high priority to pay attention to the investors who have proven over decades that their work proves worthy of great respect and admiration. In baseball,

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Train Wreck Waiting to Happen

William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Dear Fellow Investors: A Wall Street Journal Op/Ed piece on July 9th explained why China was the developed country and the US was the emerging market. One of the examples was the high-speed rail system which has

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