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by sliverstorm 3616 days ago
Net profits are how you pay shareholders dividends, which are often demanded, and the futurr promise of which are the root basis of how the company can attract money through IPO
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That's a sort of quaint belief about the market but it's degenerated into straight up gambling. Let me put the question a different way: why should any company have positive retained earnings?
Because they're holding it offshore.