Better Buy: Toyota vs. Microsoft

By Brendan Byrnes | More Articles
February 7, 2012 | Comments (1)

The following video is part of our "Motley Fool Conversations" series, in which industrials editor/analyst Brendan Byrnes and technology editor/analyst Andrew Tonner discuss topics across the investing world.

In today's edition, Brendan and Andrew continue their series, Better Buy Now. Today, Brendan gives his opinion on Toyota, which is expecting a record 2012, while Andrew goes in-depth on tech stalwart Microsoft. Which company will win this battle?

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Andrew Tonner has no positions in the stocks mentioned above. Brendan Byrnes owns shares of Ford and Apple. The Motley Fool owns shares of Apple, Ford, Intel, and Microsoft. Motley Fool newsletter services recommend Apple, Ford, Intel, and Microsoft. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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Report this Comment On February 07, 2012, at 9:23 PM, jdwelch62 wrote:

Ford is a better buy than Toyota: Better growth possibilities, and did I hear you say that Toyota's dividend now is around 1.6%? And Ford's just re-starting it's dividend at (by my calculations) 1.55% at today's closing price? Yeah, Ford over Toyota...
Intel is a better buy than Microsoft because of the piracy issue in emerging markets. However, having said that, I still think Microsoft is a very good buy considering its current valuation, dividend, cash on balance sheet, cash-generation capability, and potential with upcoming products such as Windows 8, which will be very important for the mobile space, both tablets and smartphones, not to mention Ultrabooks. So, if you've only got so much cash, I'd buy Intel, but I wouldn't "wait on the sidelines", as Andrew put it, for very much longer with MSFT...
That's just my opinion, though...
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