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NYT report: Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Oscar Gamble, Jan 22, 2012.

  1. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Not necessarily . . . at least citing the example in the article.

    A corporate "profit" is one thing. A dividend or capital gain paid out as the result of a stock price that rose on investors' beliefs in high FUTURE profits . . . may have nothing to do with the concrete corporate profit that was originally taxed.

    You can easily have a year where your profit was flat but your stock or dividend tripled. Or a year where you had a profit but your stock tumbled because investors were worried that you weren't coming out with anything new.

    Apple will make a robust corporate profit this year. Its shareholders are losing a bundle. There doesn't seem to be much to tie these together as the "same economic occurrence."
     
  2. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    Google Miller and Modigliani ... a capital gain is just a dividend by another name.
     
  3. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    [​IMG]

    http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-google-microsoft-coca-cola-taxes-cash-offshore-2013-5
     
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