Talk:Blue chip (stock market)

Blue chips
can a stock be called as a blue chip stock if during a particular quarter results it faces some losses and unable to give dividends to its shareholders during that particular quarter?..... e-mail me at s_bhandari123@indiatimes.com?

Having attained the 'title' of blue-chip the company must have been earning, consistantly for some years, a stable income and have no extensive liabilities. Subsequently, we can assume that a blue-chip company has cash reserves that in hard times can be used to continue to pay dividends - even if the period of loss continues for some time, such is the stability and strength of the company.

ADDITIONAL NOTE: companies are not required to pay dividends to stock holders. Boards of Directors vote to pay each time. A company can still miss paying a dividend and be called a "Blue Chip" because paying dividends is not the only criteria for the title. In addition, if a company misses a dividend (does not pay it), certain preferred stockholders will eventually be paid any dividends past due: called 'cumulative stock.' This stock pays a lower dividend due to the safety of the 'catch-up' feature.

It is my understanding that the term "Blue Chip" stock came from the manufacturing sector. A company was profitable when they were producing and when metal is being cut at productive speed it produces blue colored chips of the parent material.


 * "when metal is being cut at productive speed it produces blue colored chips of the parent material. "
 * Utter nonsense. Makes no sense at all. For one thing, cutting metal doesn't generally produce "chips", for another, any swarf or the like is usually silver or a coppery colour, depending... on the metal. Besides not making any sense (why would a metal-cutting company be regarded as stable and reliable?), I've never heard it mentioned, anywhere.
 * Different coloured chips having different values is a well-known part of Poker. Using chips at all is a Poker thing. Gambling in Poker is a lot like gambling on the stock market, except usually more honest.
 * 84.65.94.92 (talk) 00:38, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Different coloured chips having different values is a well-known part of Poker. Using chips at all is a Poker thing. Gambling in Poker is a lot like gambling on the stock market, except usually more honest.
 * 84.65.94.92 (talk) 00:38, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

Blue chips in poker
I don't think the reason they are called blue chips are because they have a high (or highest) value in poker. This is obviously not true since blue chips are usually around $10. 165.230.129.165 18:56, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

I agree sources to verify this http://www.poker-chips.net/poker-chip-colours.htm and http://boardgames.about.com/od/poker/a/chip_denoms.htm. What the real reason unless historically they were highest?

ADDITIONAL NOTE: term 'blue chip' does not come from any blue poker chip - some are not considered the highest value in various places. It comes from the world famous casino of Monte Carlo, where the highest value chips are blue.

Note: Blue chip stocks are considered valuable for their stability and earning potential not their actual valuable. This is why they are named after most expensive chips.

I always thought that "blue chip" referred to the $1 chips. I.e They aren't very risky. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.107.43.19 (talk) 15:49, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

I concur with 122.107.43.19; I have a second home near Monte Carlo (in Antibes, France) and the blue chip at the Grand Casino was worth 1000 francs the last time I visited in 1987. That wasn't the highest value though, they were offering serious gamblers plaques about the size of Readers digest that had much higher value. It might be that when blue chip stocks were coined the 1000 franc blue chip was as high as they went back then, though. Dick Kimball (talk) 16:48, 25 April 2011 (UTC)


 * oooOOOOoooo! How's the second house in Monte Carlo then? Aren't you worried that foreign investors like you are driving up property prices... in Monte Carlo?!??!!!!!
 * I think it might be the honest and accurate, encyclopaedic thing to do, to just admit we haven't got a clue but it's probably Poker. But when one actually looks into it, it adds up to nothing. Or we could just sneak over to Britannica and see how they do it. Ha, they think the same thing we do, highest value in Poker. Shame on them! Hope they didn't steal it from here!
 * I wonder if there was ever some newspaper or the like who ran a stock analysis page, or a whole financial paper (like the Financial Times), and they had some scheme of marking off blue chips? Of course they didn't generally print in colour back in the day. And if it were a modern phenomenon we'd surely all know what it means! Why "chips" though? Apart from Poker, what uses "chips"? We're talking pre-computer here.
 * 84.65.94.92 (talk) 00:47, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

IBM is no longer a Bellwether Stock
Following the sale of it's PC business and its extensive refocus on the consulting services space, IBM is no longer a respected technology leader. I strongly suggest amending the article to reference Microsoft, Oracle or Cisco who are true leaders in their respective segments of the tech industry.
 * IBM is no longer a respected technology leader ... Says who? --84.168.127.159 15:12, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

DJ Internal News
I added content based on DJ internal news item. I wasn't sure how to site it since you can't link to it from the outside world. There is no byline to give credit and I don't know who writes these things. Here's the article.

I believe this has been addressed, so I'm removing the article, as its presence here is a copyvio. SchuminWeb (Talk) 00:08, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Oliver Gingold
Sounds like this guy is important in some way. Who is he? What makes him worth mentioning? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.25.140.229 (talk) 04:41, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Louay Assadi
Who is this guy? I looked but I haven't found anything about this man.

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2018 United States?!
> "In 2018 United States, there was enough of a tradition of using blue chips for higher values that "blue chip" in noun and adjective senses > signaling high-value chips and high-value property are attested since 1873 and 1894, respectively"

Why "In 2018 United States"? If it's been attested as far back as 1873, that's a permanent fact! Everywhere around the world! I'm assuming this sentence means somebody looked it up in 2018 and they lived in the USA. And looked it up in Merriam-Webster, a famous US dictionary.

But so what!? I suppose they could be making the point that the tradition has lasted up til 2018. But that's rather specific. Sure Wikipedia has a policy about dates going out of date, but what's the policy for this? I'd say "to the present day" and then leave it up to future editors if everyone forgets what "blue chip" means. Or I might even forget to mention the present-day thing and assume it as obvious. Do we normally mention things like this continuing to "now"?

Whatever, it's weird and terrible. Since nobody ever pays attention to talk comments, I'll come back in a while and edit it once I've worked out the best way, to then be reverted by some robot whose anal-retentive and malfunctioning characteristics are beaten only by the person who programmed it. Why do we let people unleash robots like this anyway? It's not like the human volunteers are bogged down doing anything useful or important. Remember that lad who wrote an entire Scottish Wikipedia based on seeing an old episode of "Rab C Nesbitt"? The humanoids need some grunt work to do, they might pick up eventually what the point of an online encyclopaedia actually is. Putting some real work in might give them a sense of pride and a feeling of protectiveness over the whole mess.

Up until the word "terrible" this section is not a rant and is about the article.


 * 84.65.94.92 (talk) 00:26, 23 January 2022 (UTC)