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		AznHisoka on June 2, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Applied Game Theory or How to pay a dividend witho... Dividend is cold hard cash in your bank account. Stocks is not cash and needs to be liquified. Your million dollar portfolio could theoretically be worth $0 any day.

kriro on June 2, 2016 [–]

I a reasonably liquid market I could just sell my stocks to get cash. If I don't trust the company to grow I should take the cash dividend but probably also sell all my stock in it (and invest it elsewhere).

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