Podcast 255 - MICROSOFT IS NOT ALL THAT WONDERFUL.

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Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 255, on December 27th of 2025. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of six investment books.

I finally finished the editing and formatting of my latest book, “Achieving Financial Independence Safely. 200 NYSE Stocks - Analyzed and Scored”. Early next week it will be forwarded to Amazon/Kindle. As soon as it is available, I will be informing all those who sent emails to me at [e-mail] requesting when they could order it at the the initial discounted price.

During the following week I came across an article by an investment analyst at a large firm. He excitedly reported that Microsoft paid out in dollars a higher dividend than any of the S&P 500 companies. Since a Microsoft stock could be bought for $487.71 and paid out a dividend $3.64 over a year I found it hard to believe that $3.64 was something to brag about. I also wondered for such a profitable company where were the billions in profit going?

This podcast deals with stock options, investment charges, greed, inflation, Verizon, portfolio's of 20 stocks, speculator blindness and achieving financial independence.

My books are not get-rich-quick books. They are about taking a little time to carefully seek out financially strong companies with long histories of paying ever rising high dividends accompanied by rising share prices. Diversification and patience win out in investing.

Please, visit my website www.informus.ca if you wish to learn more about me and my writing.

Ian Duncan MacDonald
Author and Commercial Risk Consultant,
President of Informus Inc
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Toronto, Ontario
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