I have recently noticed in some companies (technology-based ones in particular) that they end up in a net loss in their annual report (sometimes for the past several years), although their share prices still increase (e.g. Atlassian, Salesforce, etc). Of course, no one can (probably) describe exactly "why" this occurs, but I'm curious to hear your thoughts. Cheers!
I'm struggling to understand the core reason to invest in stocks as a minority shareholder. Majority shareholding makes more sense as you effectively control the company, so you can pay yourself dividends or even sell the entire company at will. You can guarantee your own payback.  However, as a minority shareholder, you don't get to make any of these decisions. You're basically just hoping to eventually, some day get paid, if the majority holders decide so.  Why do so many investors agree to pay now huge sums of money (trillions in total) for something that may eventually pay dividends, and even in the best case, these dividends are only a fraction of the price you paid to acquire these stocks?  The average annual dividend rate for the US stock market is 2%. That means if you bought 100 million worth of shares, you'd have to wait 50 years to recover your investment.  Of course, the most probable way you'd eventually get liquidity for these shares is by selling them to some other starry-eyed investor - which makes the whole thing seem like a giant Ponzi scheme.  Given all that, it's unclear to me why the public is willing to spend so much money to acquire minority shares in companies.
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