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Re:Verizon closes $4.5B acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer ... by bogomipz on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @12:20PM (#14553775)
>"The value of a piece of a corporation stems from a claim to said corporation's future profits. If you have no influence then you may not be able to stake that claim."

No, If buy the stock I have a contractual right to future profits. This is true whether I am a small individual investor or whether I personally know every member of the Board of Directors. The stock represents that claim. Influence is completely orthogonal to the legal contract that the stock represents.

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Re:Verizon closes $4.5B acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer ... by YZF on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @08:05PM (#14556973)
Doesn't this entire discussion demonstrate it ain't so? If the company has a revenue of $1B and pays the CEO $1B then it has zero profit. So how does the contractual obligation work out here? If you don't get a say on whether the CEO gets $1B in salary then what exactly is going on here?

There are other situations like the company taking on debt, issuing more shares, bankruptcy, acquiring other companies, share buybacks, dividends. If you don't have control there are ways for the company to "steal" your share of the profits.

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