query: Question about dividends and giant companies
positive_passages.docid: 147804
positive_passages.text: Why does a company pay dividends at all?
negative_passages.docid: 110402
negative_passages.text: When I sell only a portion of my shares of a stock, which shares actually get sold
negative_passages.docid: 129865
negative_passages.text: Why should we expect stocks to go up in the long term?
negative_passages.docid: 91241
negative_passages.text: Do I make money in the stock market from other people losing money?
negative_passages.docid: 140149
negative_passages.text: What is the ROI effect of switching mutual funds in a taxable account?
negative_passages.docid: 72958
negative_passages.text: Buying shares when the price goes down 2% and selling shares when it goes up 2%
negative_passages.docid: 104205
negative_passages.text: Is it insider trading when I already own stock in an ETF and then the ETF adds the company I work for?
negative_passages.docid: 114274
negative_passages.text: Do gains and losses across multiple different investments get netted at tax time? Or is the income tax applied individually for each?
negative_passages.docid: 14224
negative_passages.text: Can someone explain a stock's "bid" vs. "ask" price relative to "current" price?
negative_passages.docid: 31824
negative_passages.text: Are there any non-decreasing securities on the stock market?
negative_passages.docid: 52917
negative_passages.text: What is a large sudden jump (or dip) and instantaneous recovery in a stock price
negative_passages.docid: 111334
negative_passages.text: Billionaires, loans, and tax avoidance
negative_passages.docid: 131477
negative_passages.text: Are there any drawbacks to selling stocks in a low net income year and then rebuying stocks to reach a larger cost basis?
negative_passages.docid: 35599
negative_passages.text: Does investing in a company support it?
negative_passages.docid: 2159
negative_passages.text: Why do ETFs that replicate the S&P 500 vary significantly in price?
negative_passages.docid: 101612
negative_passages.text: Can a single share of stock be shorted multiple times?
negative_passages.docid: 9365
negative_passages.text: Why do investors pay trillions for minority stakes in companies, when their only potential payback is modest uncertain dividends?