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Alphabet just announced a 25 billion dollar stock buyback.

Amazon and Facebook are growth stocks so investors don't mind them holding some cash to make investments, fund acquisitions and what not (which is what everyone here seems to want). However, they'll both probably hit a 100 billion dollars in cash in the next 5 years and I would expect dividends/buybacks to follow soon after as that is more cash than anyone reasonably needs.