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> Dividends these days occur, but they are generally a token rather than the primary means of rewarding shareholders. I would strongly suggest that you visit a
by 7Figures2Commas 13y ago
> Dividends these days occur, but they are generally a token rather than the primary means of rewarding shareholders.
I would strongly suggest that you visit a site like http://www.dividendchannel.com/ http://www.dividendchannel.com/. Your statements that "companies mostly don't bother with dividends anymore" and "they are generally a token rather than the primary means of rewarding shareholders" are simply incorrect.
- yummyfajitas 13y agoSince 1980 (the earliest year I could find data for), there has been a drastic decrease dividends. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1979501 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1979501 This paper suggests, though comes far from proving, that dividends do behave as if they are used for signalling (i.e., "look at us, we are healthy, see, dividends").