I'm not moving on much of anything I'm invested in. I'm just sitting tight and waiting, hoping that things will recover sooner rather than later. If I had extra cash I might have thought of taking a couple of fliers on some bargain stuff, but that's not happening either.

 

Honda buying Harley? I don't see that happening. And I don't think I'd buy a Japanese Harley.

 

What a dreadful thought.....Jap Indian or Jap Harley.....

If that happened the ones made prior to the takeover would be worth alot of money.

~Joe

 

....that's a lot like what the Limey's said when people told them that Ford was gonna buy Jaguar...."no-way mate!"..this is a global free-for-all now...no company is safe..period

 

I just purchased some HOG shares. Current dividend yield at this price is 11.10%. I just don't purchase more than I can afford to lose. This is a long term hold. It should pay off.

 

Thank God I have cancer...
Got more to worry about than the market lol
On the bright side with all going so bad Rolls Royce and Bentley both just set sales records last month!

 

HD already uses a boatload of Jap parts... who do you think makes the front forks?

Yes Ford bought Jaguar.... and the cars were garbage when ford bought them, so ford decided to use the effn taurus platform to try to fool the Brits into thinking it was a Jag.
It didn't work did it.

Just like if Honda were to buy HD and decided to use the Honda Shadow ACE (American Classic Edition.. HD clone is more like it) and badge it as a RK. After a couple of yeard Honda would be dumping HD onto the Korean manufacturer Hyosung, just like Ford dumped Jaguar by selling to an Indian manufacturer.

 

Go ahead and buy buy buy more because the Dividend is going to go away very soon.. Hold yer stock and you'll see...

 

Dividend isn't going anywhere.

Harley just bought that EYE-talian moto maker.

Good things coming next year, but HOG stock is taking a beating just like every other company.

Today finished nearly 2 bucks higher, but I am SURE it will drop again... you can either buy the troughs and sell the waves, or buy when you think it hit bottom and hold for a year.... dividend pays, then sell on the up about 3 or 4 months later.

HOG willl Probably go down to 10 soon.... as ALL other stocks will (the same percentage (15 to 20%)...

HOG also has the "sub-prime" lending to deal with, but it is no where NEAR the cataclysm that housing lenders face...

 

Yeah 2 bucks up today. Could have made some money if I still would have been in it. The problem still remains and the reason they were just downgraded by a major analyst is because the bulk of their scooter business has been with the boomers. They are struggling to capture the next age group in any kind of numbers to sustain future growth. Tie this with tight money and the problem is compounded. I would guess that in this country that most of the Harleys sold are for recreation. When money gets tight consumers and lenders are less likely to pull the trigger on recreational items.

American Dream Cycles on the north side of Houston just recently shut down because all there lenders pulled the plug on chopper credit. Right now there is no telling how low the stock will go before it turns. Then the next question will be how much will it recover. A year from now $14 Harley stock will either look like a bargain, a bad deal or undesirable to own. T.