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Author: Mark   😊 😞
Number: of 15055 
Subject: Re: RW, Just Hold the Gdamn stock,
Date: 09/23/2024 2:56 PM
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Paying a nominal dividend of $0.25 - $0.50 would not hurt anything. Would not hurt anybody.

Of course it would hurt some people (and institutions)! For example, the Samuel and Ruth Gottesman who held shares for more than 6 decades, never sold them, and then gifted the whole thing (over $1B) to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in NY. Let's say instead they received a "small" 1% dividend each year for the last 60 years, and had to pay about 1/3 of it in taxes ... EACH YEAR for over 60 years! That's early 20% cumulatively that would end up as taxes leaving less to be donated. So there's an example of someone being hurt.

But again, either Meta, Goog, Apple, Msft, etc are all wrong, OR, Buffett is being stubborn and he's wrong.

There's no "wrong" or "right" here, it's just a matter of taste and how one believes allocation of capital ought to be handled.
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