Apple does pay dividends. Google and Amazon do not. https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/aapl/dividend-history https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/

Apple does pay dividends. Google and Amazon do not. https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/aapl/dividend-history 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).