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To: Steve Felix who wrote (30431)	1/20/2019 7:03:40 PM
From: spindr00	1 Recommendation Recommended By berniel Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34328

Nice S&P performance charts but it doesn't address the question. I'm not disputing that over the decades, S&P stocks that paid a dividend outperformed those that did not. Note that I wrote 'S&P stocks". You're making the assumption that the dividend is causal. Let's try another approach. When a stock goes ex-dividend, what happens to share price? If you can answer that, you might better understand what I am suggesting. Simple question, simple answer.