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this is such a funny comment, we are so tech-pilled that we forgot companies traditionally pay dividends and that’s the reason to invest, to share in the profits, not to speculate

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Interestingly enough, Berkshire Hathaway is famous for never paying dividends (except once, I think), and instead use the income to speculate on buying new companies. https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/09/12/berkshire-hathaway...

Buybacks are dividends by another name.

But in that case, you do have to sell to get any cash out, so "never selling" is similar to reinvesting dividends.

Why would I want someone creating taxable events for me? Under the current tax regime, buybacks are vastly superior.

As long as you have an accurate sense of the intrinsic value of your shares at any given time; there is a price at which buybacks destroy more value for continuing shareholders than they would lose to taxes on dividends.

Speculate isn't the right word to use for Berkshire's investments.

I wish I saw this comment two years ago while the stock price of one of our local company is still cheap. I sold all my shared before the price slightly tanked, earning just around 14% profit. Now two years later the price has gone up ~100% and they paid dividends twice during the time.

Should have treated it the old-fashion way, not the modern day-trading way.

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