RE:A lot to ponderThe dividends are OKAY --- you must be JOKING !!!! They asre 4.3% because the stock price has dropped like a rock $32/s vs. $44/s. The dividends were and still are terrible. NPI chose to squaundered its resources on terrible investments (i.e., the Columbia poer company) rather than giving something decent to shareholders.
Because the share price was in the $40 range for a long time NPI held the opinion the shareholders were sufficiently rewarded because of the price - an obvious illusion
It is nonesense to suggest the dividend is reasonable after the stock crashes with little chance of recovery over the next 3-5 year, and there is no hope that the dividend will be increased.
For someone who supposedly doesn't own any NPI shares, or isn't employed, engaged or paid to spout NPI non-sense, one has to question why you make these types of comments