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Re:Behind the Market Swoon: The Herdlike Behavior of Compute... by cs702 on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @11:52AM (#18763082)
In such a horrific scenario, I imagine the stocks of companies with low-duration free cash flows (i.e., generating profits in the near future and trading at reasonable multiples of those profits) would hold up the best, because they can pay greater dividends, buy back more shares, be more likely to go private at a premium, etc. As for the stocks of companies with high-duration cash flows (i.e., companies for which the majority of profits lies far in the future, trading at optimistic multiples of those distant profits)... I imagine they would suffer the worst declines.

However, I agree with JumpCrisscross (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18763124) that such a horrific scenario is unlikely.

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