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4 Big Tech giants have plowed over $1 trillion into stock buybacks in 10 years — more than Tesla or Meta's entire market value (markets.businessinsider.com)
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4 Big Tech giants have plowed over $1 trillion into stock buybacks in 10 years — more than Tesla or Meta's entire market value::Apple poured over $600 billion into buybacks in the decade to March 31, exceeding Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta's combined spending.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No one is being manipulated. The company is handing the stockholders their own profits. Dividends are the same thing, just taxed differently.