First the easy one:
VM Ware
I am currently a large holder of EMC stock --- which owns 85% of VM Ware -- and having just sold a company to EMC that specialized in digital clustered storage (big sales into the cloud) = that company (Isilon Systems) is now owned by EMC...
VM WARE allows users to use their "computers" as Virtual Machines -- so in real quicky terms --- their software allows a large company to operate on several different OS (operating systems) and have the "clients" (user machines) operate as virtual machines. With all the different OS out there now -- iOS - Unix - Windows (whatever version) etc and then you're really running the company on something by IBM or whatever.... so basically VM Ware allows this all to take place and all the "clients" can receive changes from IT etc. So in large workplace situations it's a wonderful "fix" for a complicated problem. Hope that makes sense.
An individual can run Win (X) on their Apple (iOS) using VM Ware product... so it allows iOS to be the basic machine OS -- and allow you to run Win (X) in "virtual" mode. Pretty cool stuff and lots of people are using this product because lots of people are running Macs in a Windows world...
So you can OWN EMC stock and actually own 85% of VM Ware -- or you can just own VM Ware...
When VM Ware does well -- EMC gets a kick in it's stock because of it. EMC of course is a VERY large company compared to VM Ware.
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Kinder Morgan is a little more complicated -- KMP -- Kinder Morgan Partners is a "MASTER LIMITED PARTNERSHIP" and as such has to pass most of their income on to it's partners -- when you own this stock you are a "partner". Thus a nice dividend payer (provided of course that the income stream is good!
KMP -- OWNS substantially the other two stocks - KMI and KMR....and they're all set up in a very complicated inter-related way to run and or spin off "income" from their businesses. It's so complicated that it isn't really worth trying to understand --- because in the real world that we function in --- we just want to own good companies that pay good dividends. That would be KMP --- the main Master LLP....
When you do the research -- you'll find that just owning KMP is the way to play. The growth is outstanding - the dividend is stellar -- and the other two entities -- not so much. KMR pays no dividend and actually operates more like a secondary offering to raise cash for KMP... DUDE -- your head will spin trying to figure it all out.
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