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But both classes are pari passu in economic terms - if Class A gets a $1 dividend Class B must receive the same.

If he bought and they announced a share buyback / dividend, people would wonder if he heard something from Gates.

A dividend payment is no different than the payment between you and me in the example above.

The present dividend programme costs $35 billion annually.

Each year, every US citizen resident in Alaska receives a dividend payment from this fund.

Couldn't they just issue a dividend for that, they've clearly got plenty of cash Or is this about the credibility of having a valuation.

So everyone gets at least some smallish portion of the robots' output, or put differently, a smallish portion of the automation dividend.

Stocks that issue dividends modify that arrangement because one doesn't need to sell the stock at a higher price to receive a return, since the dividend is providing a return all the time.

Is it good policy to have a dividend declared for the benefit of insiders and for founders to take significant cash out of a company in the early stages even while other employees may not have that opportunity?

Counter-intuitively, eliminating the corporate income tax would make it much easier to tax corporate income, because those profits necessarily flow back to investors either in the form of dividends or capital gains.

The dividend puts money back into the hands of investors that can choose to either re-invest back into Apple stock, or invest in companies whose core competency is space exploration, electric cars, or some of the other areas that wouldn't be in Apple's expected domain.