In what we can only assume is an effort to drive up the General Maritime share price in advance of Frontline’s potentially hostile take over, General Maritime has adopted a dividend policy. The play here is that dividend yield paying stocks like Knightsbridge and NAT are being valued on a multiple of dividends, which is significantly higher than the tanker companies that pay small dividends (less than 5 percent) or no dividends at all. The chart on page 2 illustrates this phenomenon
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