That's not how this works really. I own a lot of stock, I have since the 80s. I'm on three boards and advise two others due to my experience.
This poster doesn't have a basic understanding of dividends. I get about 250k a year in dividends from my stock holdings.
So, let's use Twitter as an example. If I sell now, I get the 90k mentioned above, cool - but that is it, I don't make any more money! But, if I hold out and don't sell, I'll make 30k a year for a decade, and that will go up every single year as my holdings increase or inflation/rates go up.
But, let's say we only have capital appreciation to deal with. Elon offered $54.20 per share, but chances are you paid more for that because Twitter is in a slump now, but at their highest they were at $75 a share, and are at $45 now. It wouldn't be hard to get above that pretty quickly with the economy recovering.
If I were a shareholder, I'd want to hold out and make more money either way.
Also, to assume a purchase point of $24 means they bought Twitter around the lowest it's ever been during the split when they were limiting purchase because they were in the process of buying out Jack.
The reality is most Twitter shareholders bought between $45 and $50, so $4 gain per share isn't really worthwhile. Now, it would be for the average person, but someone who owns enough Twitter to make a profit offer a $4 per share jump has enough money that it's not a big profit.
A very good example of this is Lennar. I bought a fuck ton of Lennar in 2008 during the crash because I knew it would all come back eventually. I held and held and decided last year to cash out to use it to build my new farm. I sold at $105 a share, plenty of money to build my house. That was a worthwhile hold.
That sounds great if there was not a possibility of a Stock Market Crash. So many of you pretend it could never happen to you. Maybe this will be the event that triggers Suicide weekend.
That's not how this works really. I own a lot of stock, I have since the 80s. I'm on three boards and advise two others due to my experience.
This poster doesn't have a basic understanding of dividends. I get about 250k a year in dividends from my stock holdings.
So, let's use Twitter as an example. If I sell now, I get the 90k mentioned above, cool - but that is it, I don't make any more money! But, if I hold out and don't sell, I'll make 30k a year for a decade, and that will go up every single year as my holdings increase or inflation/rates go up.
But, let's say we only have capital appreciation to deal with. Elon offered $54.20 per share, but chances are you paid more for that because Twitter is in a slump now, but at their highest they were at $75 a share, and are at $45 now. It wouldn't be hard to get above that pretty quickly with the economy recovering.
If I were a shareholder, I'd want to hold out and make more money either way.
Thank you, this expectation that Twitters value would just fall to zero is unrealistic. That only happens really with liquidation.
Also, to assume a purchase point of $24 means they bought Twitter around the lowest it's ever been during the split when they were limiting purchase because they were in the process of buying out Jack.
The reality is most Twitter shareholders bought between $45 and $50, so $4 gain per share isn't really worthwhile. Now, it would be for the average person, but someone who owns enough Twitter to make a profit offer a $4 per share jump has enough money that it's not a big profit.
A very good example of this is Lennar. I bought a fuck ton of Lennar in 2008 during the crash because I knew it would all come back eventually. I held and held and decided last year to cash out to use it to build my new farm. I sold at $105 a share, plenty of money to build my house. That was a worthwhile hold.
That sounds great if there was not a possibility of a Stock Market Crash. So many of you pretend it could never happen to you. Maybe this will be the event that triggers Suicide weekend.
What kind of dividends can you get when the share price has gone up 18 cents total since its IPO and the company has shit for profits?
I was explaining how people make money from stocks.