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Re:Netflix is now worth more than $100B by jjeaff on Monday January 22, 2018 @10:42PM (#16210792)
Amazon is generating plenty of profit for investors. And the best kind of profit too, capital gains.

Why pay out dividends to your investors with after tax money that will be taxed again at a higher rate when you can just stash it overseas and buy more capital assets and let the stock grow in perpetuity. Same with apple.

As an investor, you don't need dividends, you just sell a few shares each quarter.

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Re:Netflix is now worth more than $100B by kgwgk on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @02:59AM (#16211817)
Apple does pay a dividend. And gives even more money to shareholders in the form of buybacks. The total shareholder yield (dividends plus buybacks, divided by market cap) looks quite different for Amazon and Apple:

https://advisortools.zacks.com/Research/Stocks/AAPL/Sharehol... https://advisortools.zacks.com/Research/Stocks/AMZN/Sharehol...

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Re:Netflix is now worth more than $100B by jjeaff on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @04:04AM (#16272531)
That's only recent. Post Jobs.
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