Hey u_day bro, you do bring up a good point about FDG, but I might not totally agree with ya. If you look at the company's 5 years record it has been on a steady growth and I don't always view splits as a bad thing. You actually want your stocks to split, if you already hold their stocks. I mean you don't want negative split where your 10 stocks becomes 1 but positive splits are sign of healthy growth. I agree with you on dividend that it is a way to lure investors, but at the same time you need to look at their major stock holders. ladyinred, your point is very well taken and we all know we need to diversify our investment. But the question is how and what kinds to include in your diverfication? In my opinion Communication / Technology and Energy stocks are still the way to go about diversifying for long term investment. I don't mean your traditional technolgoy or energy stocks, but more an alternative to them. With oil prices showing no sign to decrease, I am really in a look out for that next alternative energy company to hit it big.....some sort of bio-energy, fossil energy, solar or thermal energy and so on.