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> Apple is vastly more profitable than Amazon. And not a dime of that was paid to shareholders as dividends. So what does it matter? I once had a local busin
by dingaling 8y ago
> Apple is vastly more profitable than Amazon.
And not a dime of that was paid to shareholders as dividends. So what does it matter?
I once had a local businessman tell me that profit was a waste. You are such a poor leader that you can't find a way to reinvest that surplus in your company and its people? So you give a quarter of it to government and put the rest in the bank so they can use it to make themselves money?
I'm not a fan of Mr Bezos but I think he has the right idea; if shareholders aren't demanding cash then take the opportunity to feed the net revenue back into the company. Some day the shareholders will wake-up...
- JumpCrisscross 8y ago> And not a dime of that was paid to shareholders as dividends Apple pays a dividend and has a massive stock buyback program.
- nerdwaller 8y agoI’m trying to understand what you’re going after here. AAPL has a fairly substantial dividend (it was the biggest in the world last year[0], and continues to be fairly substantial given the share price). If you’re talking about AMZN then it makes sense as they buy up more verticals, reinvesting any profits to growth. In either case the two companies are at different phases of their cycle. Apple is in the stable dividend mode while Amazon is still growing. Either could choose to change that, of course, but shareholders have expectations and to some extent both organizations are up to the whims of shareholder voting. [0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/05/02/apple-now-pays-the-biggest-dividend-in-the-world-surpassing-exxon.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/05/02/app...