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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 857085" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>What I mean is that companies like FedEx are paying out as much as they can in dividends. In FedEx's case they paid out over 150 million dollars in Fiscal Year 2011. The last quarter of that year they paid 13 cents a share. In order for that to amount to much you'd have to own alot of shares. So the mutual funds buy the stock to get the dividend. Alot of it. They are the driving force behind the stock price. The demand keeps the price high. Who benefits? The corporate exec's who own alot of the stock. If I were going to sell 10,000 of my personal shares on the market, would I want the price to be $30 a share, or $100? So I'll do whatever it takes within the law to maximize my company's profit and pay out as much as I can in dividends to attract buyers. And taking away from my employees is an easy way to bolster profits. Sending good jobs overseas to be done by cheap labor is a good way to increase profit. Bottom line for corporate exec's is that the real wealth isn't in their salaries, it's in the stock that they own. Everything we do on the job is to maximize profit to help them make more money with a higher stock price. That's it in a nutshell.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 857085, member: 24302"] What I mean is that companies like FedEx are paying out as much as they can in dividends. In FedEx's case they paid out over 150 million dollars in Fiscal Year 2011. The last quarter of that year they paid 13 cents a share. In order for that to amount to much you'd have to own alot of shares. So the mutual funds buy the stock to get the dividend. Alot of it. They are the driving force behind the stock price. The demand keeps the price high. Who benefits? The corporate exec's who own alot of the stock. If I were going to sell 10,000 of my personal shares on the market, would I want the price to be $30 a share, or $100? So I'll do whatever it takes within the law to maximize my company's profit and pay out as much as I can in dividends to attract buyers. And taking away from my employees is an easy way to bolster profits. Sending good jobs overseas to be done by cheap labor is a good way to increase profit. Bottom line for corporate exec's is that the real wealth isn't in their salaries, it's in the stock that they own. Everything we do on the job is to maximize profit to help them make more money with a higher stock price. That's it in a nutshell. [/QUOTE]
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