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JPMorgan May Offer More Than Stock Gains

By Jim Cramer

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If you cut your dividend when you got TARP and then you repaid TARP, do you immediately start rebuilding your dividend, or do you go the Goldman Sachs route and forsake a large dividend? I have been pondering this question as I read the site and see discussions about buybacks and rewarding of shareholders, particularly the excellent exchange in the Columnist Conversation between Tim Melvin and Jeff Bagley. Jeff points out, correctly, that JPMorgan Chase has been in on a host of deals, pretty much every one, and it has a really great book of business. I am wondering if the business is so good that JPM will soon begin to rebuild its dividend. We all know that banks, in the end, had almost no rainy-day money, as they kept buying back stock at high prices over and over and over again. Those days are done for...

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