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To: Alberta's Child

No. Simply being a public traded company does not defacto keep the profits where they shareholders are..

Stock value is not from profits…. Only money a stockholder directly gets from a company are dividend payments if they pay any and even that is whatever the board decides, and is not 100% of profits.

Most power even in publicly traded company is not help by common stock holders.


26 posted on 07/17/2021 1:12:18 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay
Well, OK -- but the value of the stock to the shareholder goes way beyond just the dividends.

If I buy Toyota stock at $10/share and sell it years later for $100/share, I get the $90/share capital gain all to myself. It's not like half of it -- or even 1% of it -- gets skimmed off the top by some Japanese dude.

29 posted on 07/17/2021 1:20:32 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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