DrCashFlow
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Message Posted: Feb 8, 2012 12:58:30 AM
Raise the dividend
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52MPG
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Dayton
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Message Posted: Feb 7, 2012 10:36:06 PM
High gas prices have to go somewhere.
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ObieDog
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Maryland
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Message Posted: Feb 7, 2012 3:41:41 PM
Oops, they did it again.
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WalkingWV
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West Virginia
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Message Posted: Feb 7, 2012 9:29:48 AM
obscene
x-rated
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acvw74
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Illinois
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Message Posted: Feb 7, 2012 6:24:18 AM
9.4 Billion....
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Eliano
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Baltimore
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Message Posted: Feb 7, 2012 6:14:05 AM
ok
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doeslayersr
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Illinois
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Message Posted: Feb 7, 2012 6:09:22 AM
Do not hear any outrage about the 17%+ NET profit which UPS posted, which by the way dwarfed the profit of virtually every oil company, both in pure percentage and just plain dollars.
Nothing but a bunch of mind numbed dunderhead robots reading from your talking points memos.
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nurdco
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Message Posted: Feb 7, 2012 4:27:20 AM
GREED...
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Pozole
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Portland
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Message Posted: Feb 7, 2012 3:36:24 AM
...is that all ?...poor little hosers...
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OWENALOTT
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Appleton
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Message Posted: Feb 7, 2012 12:50:08 AM
That is a very nice profit. All from higher gas prices?
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LilRedWagonIN
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Indiana
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Message Posted: Feb 6, 2012 10:22:25 PM
A goof-ball article written by a goof-ball reporter working for a goof-ball dot com company. Who compares a company's quarterly income with some random country's GNP. Ah, let's look on a website that will list countries' annual GNP and for fun, compare it with a company we don't like, because we hate the free enterprise system.
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joekayak
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Massachusetts
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Message Posted: Feb 6, 2012 9:39:03 PM
I'd gladly take the .4 billion off their hands so that they don't have to deal with decimals.
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majormarket
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Houston
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Message Posted: Feb 6, 2012 9:22:40 PM
No matter how you slice it, $9.4 billion in a quarter is a lot of cash.
Yet, as a fervent capitalist, I don't have much pity for Big Oil when they beg for more tax breaks while millions of Americans wonder how to put food on the table.
I'm just hoping they will reward their shareholders with some of this bonanza. To paraphrase Mitt Romney, shareholders are people, too. :)
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aquarinut
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British Columbia
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Message Posted: Feb 6, 2012 9:02:18 PM
I definitely am not a greenie, tree hugging, 1%'er!!!
But...... $9.4 BILLION NET INCOME!!! In one quarter!!
Even if the NET profit were $8 billion, that would be impressive as heck! If only they could afford the $1.4 billion dollars to help lower the price of domestic gas,,,, then I would be really impressed!
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djvanbeek45
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Message Posted: Feb 6, 2012 8:26:17 PM
This is highway robbery at its finest.
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tnfran
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Message Posted: Feb 6, 2012 7:02:01 PM
AND ALL ON SELLING LESS PRODUCT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GREEDY THIEVES!!!!!!
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drpepperTX
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Texas
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Message Posted: Feb 6, 2012 6:58:37 PM
As kx250 points out, a 7 73% profit margin and the whiners come out.
XOM PROFIT MARGIN
Displayed as a percentage, profit margin can be thought as the amount of profit that a company keeps per dollar of revenue. For example, if a company has a profit margin of 7.73%, the company keeps $.0773 of each dollar of revenue.
That's right 7 and 3/4 pennies out of every dollar of revenue.
PIG GOVERNMENT loves ya now baby!
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Joeski1
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New Jersey
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Message Posted: Feb 6, 2012 6:39:48 PM
are the numbers incorrect??
did msnbc make them up??
what numbers did exxon/mobil give??
[Edited by: Joeski1 at 2/6/2012 7:40:25 PM EST]
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DerHahn
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Illinois
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Message Posted: Feb 6, 2012 5:51:28 PM
almost 10 billion in profit in a 3 month period yet they complain that an increase in taxes would take away from the profit margin. let me get my violin.
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bigmoo63
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Kalamazoo
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Message Posted: Feb 6, 2012 5:49:31 PM
Look at the source MSNBC. Not exactly fair and balanced either.
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nels1jac
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Minnesota
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Message Posted: Feb 6, 2012 5:39:16 PM
Good for them, they deserve it...
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BJWI
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Message Posted: Feb 6, 2012 4:58:20 PM
I am not against capitalism or companies making a profit. However, I am against market manipulation, price fixing, and excessive profits that hinders our country's economic growth. Remember the saying, sometimes you need to sacrifice the few to save the many. In this case, the few could have been the penny per share profit above expectation that was already based on record profits.
People who claim, "Stockholders have a right to make a profit" are wrong, stockholders do not have a RIGHT to a profit, they have an EXPECTATION that a company will make a profit.
BTW - the article was old news that was published more than 6 days ago at least.
[Edited by: BJWI at 2/6/2012 5:59:49 PM EST]
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Lugi1967
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Ohio
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Message Posted: Feb 6, 2012 4:51:47 PM
Of course they did We all helped pad their bank account
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buckets42
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Message Posted: Feb 6, 2012 4:15:29 PM
Wow.
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MotherNatureCT
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Message Posted: Feb 6, 2012 3:58:40 PM
They are spitting in our faces all the way to the bank....
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drpepperTX
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Texas
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Message Posted: Feb 6, 2012 3:56:12 PM
LOL, this news is old, but I guess the oil haters have nothing better to post.
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humblepie
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Toledo
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Message Posted: Feb 6, 2012 3:42:37 PM
now lets here all the GREED cry babies
this company employes hundred of thousands of people
unlike solyndra.............
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mwc407
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North Carolina
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Message Posted: Feb 6, 2012 3:39:38 PM
If you can't beat em - join em. Buy those oil stocks now and get in on the profits. You rarely see big oil losing money.
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kx250
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Michigan
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Message Posted: Feb 6, 2012 3:17:31 PM
Here we go again. Exxon mobil profit 7.7%, Apple (who apparently can't afford to assemble i-phones in America) 28%
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paguy2012
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Pennsylvania
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Message Posted: Feb 6, 2012 3:07:55 PM
The way the oil industry has been pushing up prices, I'm surprised they didn't post higher profits. They must be sending more on management bonuses!
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bandannaman
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New Jersey
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Message Posted: Feb 6, 2012 3:00:44 PM
Tough quarter
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