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by JimboOmega 2421 days ago
At least with stock, even if they aren't paying a dividend in theory you own a portion of the earnings stream; it is instead reinvested in the company. But still a lot of companies do pay them (e.g. AAPL). If you owned all the shares of these companies you'd own something quite valuable that could return to you a lot of money, I think we all agree on that. (The ones with no dividend and you don't vote or control anything is worse).