Well, companies aren't people - at least, not, real human people who can care about things. And the people who it does matter to are, with a couple degrees of indirection, the same people who control the company.
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But the market in the real world is increasingly divorced from actual profits from the company actually making stuff and selling it to actual customers And the less connected real profits and stock prices are the more likely it is we're in a bubble
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That's why the Bitcoin boom is so upsetting, because Bitcoin actually is like what Ellie is saying, it's like Dutch tulip bulbs, expensive only for being expensive without actually producing anything
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It's not, though. The price of the stock isn't supposed to be about the dividends, but about what the company is worth in its totality - assets, IP, profit margin, employees. Getting a divident paid out is almost just a formality, since profit is supposed to be for the owners.
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You can buy stock for the dividends if it's a high profit company, but in a lot of cases you buy stock because you think the company will be worth more in the future than it is now. You're banking on it growing, because you own a percentage of it.
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