Bill Gross Equity Quotations

Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.

Companies have been diluting your equity via stock options claiming that management needs incentives of millions of dollars just to get up in the morning and come in to work, ... Then they pick you off by trading on insider information, selling shares before the bad news hits and you have a chance to get out.

Stocks historically return more than almost all other alternative investments but only when priced right when the race begins, ... If you start from day one with P/Es too high or, importantly, dividends too low, you will not obtain equity returns in excess of bonds.