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Buying shares in a company supports the company financially only in very limited contexts (e.g. IPO). Buying shares primarily benefits you as an investor. Buyi
by andsoitis 1y ago
Buying shares in a company supports the company financially only in very limited contexts (e.g. IPO). Buying shares primarily benefits you as an investor.
Buying shares in a company doesn’t benefit its operations, like making a product, directly. Hence, buying shares != support company’s products, however counterintuitive that feels.
- cudgy 1y ago“Buying shares primarily benefits you as an investor.” Maybe during a never-ending bull market … but all bull markets end … look at the “lost decade”
- andsoitis 1y agoThat's a different discussion. Argument here is that buying shares (other than during specific events like an IPO) affects the shareholder, not the company's products. So whether or not you buy shares has no relation to supporting the company's products. The latter happens when you buy or not buy their product.