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		sopooneo on Dec 6, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The World's Dumbest Idea: Maximizing Shareholder V... Doesn't share price typically go down after a dividend payment, by exactly the amount of the payment per share?

tinco on Dec 6, 2014 [–]

They do, but that's a very short term logical thing. If you reason about the long term, the stock that pays a steady and steadily increasing divident is obviously worth more than one that doesn't.

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