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What clif said.
The whole idea of owning stock (unless you are a speculator) is to get a piece of the company's profits. Except for companies in their growth phase (which I'm not very interested in), they should be earning a profit and returning that profit. If companies just build share price until the day they go bankrupt, never paying a dividend, the shareholder never gets a dime back on their investment. The question any long term shareholder should ask is not IF they will pay a dividend but WHEN.
Even Buffett really should start paying dividends now that they are not so bad taxwise.
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