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>> it's just about speculation. As opposed to all the other reasons people buy publicly-traded shares?

• matheusmoreira 5y ago
  I thought the power to affect corporate decision making was an important part of investing. Apparently not.
  • sandworm101 5y ago
    That power is still there. By selling their non-voting shares investors lower their price, which has knock-on impacts on the corporation. What is lost is the power to directly make corporate decisions.
    • matheusmoreira 5y ago
      > What is lost is the power to directly make corporate decisions. That's what I meant.
  • depaulagu 5y ago
    Definitely not for individual-saving-for-retirement investors IMO (altough there might be some that think that's important, but they can't affect nothing really). What matters most to these (me included) is the growth of the nest egg, by dividends or capital gains (which FB has delivered handsomely on the last decade). For large institutional investors, it may be important. For activist investors, it certainly is.