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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread.
QCOM 181.03-3.5%Oct 28 9:30 AM EDT
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To: Bill Wolf who wrote (12209)9/1/2025 11:38:39 PM
From: dylan murphy   of 12227
 
I would add one thing to that list. He doesn't pay a dividend. IIRC he paid one once in the '60s and must have had a panic attack that he had given some money to the owners, (i.e., shareholders). He never did it again. The return of a lot of companies would look better if they never paid a dividend. I'm sure he would say things like double taxes and he could invest that money better than you could. And no one would complain about the return the stock has given over the years. People want to do things some things with money other than invest. Things like buy a house or car or money for kids or grandkids college. The only way you can use some of that return is to sell the stock, pay the tax, and then you no longer own those shares.

Maybe they got around that problem when they issued the B shares. I don't follow the company that close so I'm not sure how that was handled. Of course if you bought the B shares now they don't pay a dividend either.

The irony is he likes to buy shares of companies that pay dividends, but he won't pay his shareholders one. He has 350 billion in cash and can't figure out how to spend that money. LoL. I wonder what his return would be if he had paying a modest dividend the last 50 years?
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