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by Invictus0 1245 days ago
You disagree that buybacks are more tax efficient than dividends?

> I think a company that has no intention of paying a dividend is merely an over produced digital collectible.

So, Amazon is a NFT?

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If Amazon cannot grow, then yes, it's stock price will go down losing you more than you bought the shares for.
Therefore, any shareholders of amazon would look to predict when amazon would stop growing, and sell right before the prices have adjusted.
stock buybacks are more tax efficient than dividends, but I disagree they are remotely the same thing. There is plenty of empirical evidence that a stock buyback does little to the stock price in the long run, and I would much rather have the decision what to do with the money even though its less tax efficient.

An NFT is a good way to put it.

So if Amazon bought back so many shares so that there were just one left on the public market, you think that the last share would trade for $97?