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Re:The Shock of Sweden's Housing Market Is Hitting the Count... by littlestymaar on Thursday November 16, 2017 @01:11AM (#15710570)
> A liquid secondary market is what enables the company to go public in the first place.

Dividends enable the company to go public. The secondary market makes the stock liquid, which is convenient but not mandatory.

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Re:The Shock of Sweden's Housing Market Is Hitting the Count... by vasilipupkin on Thursday November 16, 2017 @07:04AM (#15712026)
No. Growth companies may not pay dividends for years and still go public. Dividends are paid by private companies too. The only reason to go public is the liquidity
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Re:The Shock of Sweden's Housing Market Is Hitting the Count... by geezerjay on Friday November 17, 2017 @02:16PM (#15725089)
That's not true. A company doesn't manage to sell its shares because of dividends. Dividends may be used to estimate value base on the expectation of returns, but if dividends were relevant or even dictated the share price then stocks of companies that posted negative results would be worth zero. Which they don't.
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