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I wanna know types and subtypes of stocks Uday Maru ( talk) 11:51, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
I tried to remove the following paragraph earlier this year but was blindly reverted.
Stocks are a function of capitalism, and therefore the stock market operates by the price mechanism: a stock cannot be classified as an investment unless it pays a dividend – the standard dividend yield being 2% – otherwise, it must be classified as a speculation (gambling). However, if one decides to reinvest the dividends, it is not speculation, and assuming for ceteris paribus, this will lead to an exponential growth of FV = P*(1+r/m)*m*t, where P is the initial investment, r is the yield, m is dividends per year, and t is number of years. A "dividend king" is a stock which has had an increasing or constant dividend yield for over 50 successive years.
The paragraph is nonsense because:
Can some please ensure it is removed and not put it back again just because it was an IP who corrected the article. -- 195.206.172.158 ( talk) 09:35, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
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I wanna know types and subtypes of stocks Uday Maru ( talk) 11:51, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
I tried to remove the following paragraph earlier this year but was blindly reverted.
Stocks are a function of capitalism, and therefore the stock market operates by the price mechanism: a stock cannot be classified as an investment unless it pays a dividend – the standard dividend yield being 2% – otherwise, it must be classified as a speculation (gambling). However, if one decides to reinvest the dividends, it is not speculation, and assuming for ceteris paribus, this will lead to an exponential growth of FV = P*(1+r/m)*m*t, where P is the initial investment, r is the yield, m is dividends per year, and t is number of years. A "dividend king" is a stock which has had an increasing or constant dividend yield for over 50 successive years.
The paragraph is nonsense because:
Can some please ensure it is removed and not put it back again just because it was an IP who corrected the article. -- 195.206.172.158 ( talk) 09:35, 3 November 2022 (UTC)