Forbes.com has an article about Nathan's Famous junk bond financed special dividend, which will pay out over a third of the company's total market capitalization.

March 12, 2015 at 9:35 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Business, Nathan's Hot Dog Contest | Permalink * Comments (6)

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  1. anonymous said

    March 12, 2015 @ 11:13 am

    If you look at the overall performance of Nathans stock since it began public trading in 1993 and opened at $3 a share , it has skyrocketed since then but it took a lot of patience by investors before it actually showed a decent profit. For most of the 90s and even into the millennium , stock moved at a snails pace hovering around $3 to $5 . It wasnt actually until 2006 when it doubled $12 to $15. 2011 traded in mid $30 range but it wasnt until the end of 2013 and last year when it peaked to nearly $80 which is what its trading at the present time. Not a bad return investment if lets say you bought 1000 shares in 1993 at $3 which would set you back 3k. If you left it alone till now you would be sitting on $80K
    http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=NATH&a=01&b=26&c=1993&d=02&e=12&f=2015&g=m&z=66&y=0

  2. anonymous said

    March 12, 2015 @ 11:25 am

    unfortunate i am one of those inpatient ones that bought the stock at a cheap price in the 90’s but got sick of looking at $4 a share for years . I guess i should have waited

  3. anonymous said

    March 13, 2015 @ 11:44 pm

    I bought and weighed 15 Nathan’s natural casing hot dogs, which were supposed to be 2.0 oz. or 57 g. My results were as follows:

    2.1 oz.: 6 hot dogs
    2.0 oz. 16 hot dogs
    1.9 oz.: 2 hot dogs
    1.7 oz.: 1 hot dog

    Average was 1.972 oz. or 55.91 g

    So, based on this, assuming my scale is accurate, Nathan’s is misrepresenting its hot dogs by over 1 gram higher each.

  4. anonymous said

    March 14, 2015 @ 10:42 am

    You must have no life. First off you ripped yourself off by purchasing natural casing dogs in a grocery and second , does it really make a difference if scale reads a gram or two less or higher? Have you seen the latest bigger than the bun dogs? Undersized those and gave them a new name

  5. anonymous said

    March 14, 2015 @ 8:43 pm

    I made a few mistakes in my post above. It is now corrected b below:

    I bought and weighed 25 Nathan’s natural casing hot dogs, which were supposed to be 2.0 oz. or 57 g. My results were as follows:

    2.1 oz.: 2 hot dogs
    2.0 oz. 16 hot dogs
    1.9 oz.: 6 hot dogs
    1.7 oz.: 1 hot dog

    Average was 1.972 oz. or 55.91 g.

  6. anonymous said

    March 14, 2015 @ 11:31 pm

    Who gives a shit ? Do you have anything better to do?

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