[Alberta's Child]

The term “P/E ratio” stopped meaning anything to me after the Enron debacle in the early 2000s. The price (P) of a stock is a tangible number, but I have no confidence in the reported earnings (E) of a company — even if the financial reports are audited by 100 different CPAs.

I’m more interested in the dividend a company pays. A company can publish a fraudulent earnings report, but it can’t fake a dividend that’s already been paid to me.

[Vaduz]

Dividends aren’t that plentiful now to much investing but you get more stock by most of them,
Now the guns out for the likes of Amazon and big tech looks like an up set about to happen and it may be for the better.