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<blockquote data-quote="nhguy" data-source="post: 623840" data-attributes="member: 5248"><p>W,</p><p> </p><p>All those things you talk about gaining from going public were already viable aspects of UPS prior to ever going public. Investors wanted our stock, institutions own most of the shares held in the market. When we went public, we were scrutinized by these analysts that initially didn't understand our business. As a result you saw the upper management start micro-managing the company. We had one of the best credit ratings of any major company for many years. We used to pay cash for everything. Wall street doesn't like companys with no debt. Wall street also doesn't like to see lots of cash sitting around. We could have stayed private and continued to do quite well. Our biggest downfall was that we were so cautious and slow to implement new strategies, new services, new spinoff companies, that competition got stronger , became more advanced on technology and so on. We were always a day late and reacting instead of being proactive.</p><p> </p><p>UPS is sadly looked at as a company with high labor costs, highly vulnerable to oil prices, lives and dies off the consumer, and is a giant that struggles to grow. Those that made all the money by making us public are the reason the rest of us will never reap the benefits of our hard work that they did.</p><p> </p><p>REMEMBER THE BIG FISH ALWAYS EATS THE LITTLE ONES</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nhguy, post: 623840, member: 5248"] W, All those things you talk about gaining from going public were already viable aspects of UPS prior to ever going public. Investors wanted our stock, institutions own most of the shares held in the market. When we went public, we were scrutinized by these analysts that initially didn't understand our business. As a result you saw the upper management start micro-managing the company. We had one of the best credit ratings of any major company for many years. We used to pay cash for everything. Wall street doesn't like companys with no debt. Wall street also doesn't like to see lots of cash sitting around. We could have stayed private and continued to do quite well. Our biggest downfall was that we were so cautious and slow to implement new strategies, new services, new spinoff companies, that competition got stronger , became more advanced on technology and so on. We were always a day late and reacting instead of being proactive. UPS is sadly looked at as a company with high labor costs, highly vulnerable to oil prices, lives and dies off the consumer, and is a giant that struggles to grow. Those that made all the money by making us public are the reason the rest of us will never reap the benefits of our hard work that they did. REMEMBER THE BIG FISH ALWAYS EATS THE LITTLE ONES [/QUOTE]
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