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BlueTommyD t1_iwwwxee wrote

It's almost like money itself can make money quicker than hard work ever can.

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theverybigapple OP t1_iwwx1la wrote

thanks for the immediate downvotes, not-kind strangers.

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pamdathebear t1_iwwxtj8 wrote

Buffett has 2 Ts

Berkshire earned those dividends not Warren himself

Dividends aren't free. It's deducted from the stock price.

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covidcares t1_iwwy8m0 wrote

Neither of those choices are a likely option for my life track. Life is good anyway.

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Lens2Learn t1_iwwyzbz wrote

Now... what is the median income for employees?

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autoencoder t1_iwwz9e9 wrote

Replying to pamdathebear (#573,075)

Dividends are when a company pays out profits when it has nothing better to invest them in.

Coca Cola has no growth potential, all they do now is cannibalize what's left of the branded plastic sugar water industry.

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DanDanDan0123 t1_iwx19s3 wrote

I have to ask…are the dividends from the total amount of dividends that the stocks earn and they will be passed to the investors or are those his dividend’s because he owns shares?

Big difference if this money is going to pay dividends to investors.

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Bright-Ad-4737 t1_iwx1be3 wrote

Replying to autoencoder (#573,187)

WTF are you talking about "no growth potential?"

Its revenue has grown 25% over the past 4 years and market cap has grown 25% over the past 5.

Did you even open the financials before you made that statement?

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Malcyn42 t1_iwx1jiy wrote

Buffet invested his money (hundreds of millions), the CEO isn't taking any risk other than getting fired.

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theverybigapple OP t1_iwx283o wrote

Replying to Malcyn42 (#573,339)

Can’t compare like this

If something shitty happens both lose, but CEO has more skin in the game in non-monetary terms. He may fuck up his career, go to jail etc. whereas Buffet will lose lots of money.

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dataslacker t1_iwx2d2c wrote

A bar chart to compare two numbers is unnecessary and therefore not beautiful.

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autoencoder t1_iwx2xbp wrote

Replying to Bright-Ad-4737 (#573,325)

I mean long-term; over decades. It's my impression that Coke is everywhere, and nowhere left to expand. The market is saturated.

If people realized the harm sugary drinks do to them, they wouldn't buy any. But if they do, there are plenty with almost the same taste as Coke, but at least 2x cheaper.

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KJtheThing t1_iwx4rxt wrote

Oh no that poor millionaire

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Pig_Benis-1234 t1_iwx51id wrote

I wish I could stuff all the plastic pollution these fuckers helped generate right down their throats.

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DamnImBeautiful t1_iwxa04y wrote

Replying to theverybigapple (#573,016)

  1. Bad Visual Design: There's literally two numbers, and the numbers are hard to read since they're vertical.
  2. Misleading 1: Warren Buffet != Berkshire Hathaway
  3. Misleading 2: Not the same time frame for the comparison of the two entities
  4. Shit Sources: Dividend yield of 704M is based off of 2022Q1-2022Q3 of 2022, true dividend yield is unknown as it has not been announced for 2022Q4.
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MarkVarga t1_iwxab2f wrote

Replying to DanDanDan0123 (#573,319)

That's the amount that he (his company, Berkshire Hathaway) received as dividend. But due to how the market works, if it wasn't paid as a dividend, it would have been realized in share price increase instead.

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Elbynerual t1_iwxfhu9 wrote

Replying to MarkVarga (#573,858)

That's the other half of it. You can work hard and be in the right field and almost certainly be a CEO somewhere. In investing a stroke of bad luck can bankrupt you overnight.

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MarkVarga t1_iwxfoub wrote

Replying to Elbynerual (#574,262)

Yeah. Roughly 70% of investment accounts are on the red. For every Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger, there are literally tens of millions of people who lost money trying to trade/invest.

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european_hodler t1_iwyowpe wrote

the quality of this sub decreases daily. 2 data points? like really?

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jrm19941994 t1_iwz74in wrote

Its almost like owning a company is better than working for said company.

Sensational

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hotmodel1234 t1_ix0nb0r wrote

Replying to autoencoder (#573,574)

To be fair, you're not wrong, as the core Coke product is saturated! It's why Coke bought VitaminWater from 50 Cent and his investors, to energy drinks like Monster as they have a huge chunk of that. Just last year, they spent $5.6B, for Body Armor, which is damn good imo.

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