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		smolder on March 30, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: French companies benefiting from state aid can't b... Dividends would also go up if there are fewer stocks and the same profit, no?

ComputerGuru on March 30, 2020 [–]

Only if the company doing the buybacks pays out dividends in the first place. (UAL doesn’t.) But the cost of buying out those shares is significantly more than the slight increase in dividends yields in all cases.

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