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Re:The ballooning money supply may be the key to unlocking i... by matthewbauer on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @03:06PM (#24769007)
That's definitely the cause of it, but it doesn't make sense to me. Once you're on S&P 500, how much growth can you realistically do? I don't see why investors don't make Google & Apple pay dividends.
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Re:The ballooning money supply may be the key to unlocking i... by jakub_g on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @04:19PM (#24769880)
Apple does pay dividends. Google and Amazon do not.

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/aapl/dividend-...

Regarding dividends, in theory when company spends $1 per share on a dividend, its stock price should go down by $1 to compensate for this. So receiving a dividend is kind of like forced selling a small portion of your stock (except that you don't pay the transaction fee).

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Re:The ballooning money supply may be the key to unlocking i... by svachalek on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @04:17PM (#24769853)
Apple does pay dividends, has for years. Is also buying back a lot of stock which is another form of investor return. Google does buybacks too but on a less systematic basis afaik.
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