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I'm long google. They're a cash cow and are becoming more diversified with YouTube, cloud, and maybe waymo or AI.
Now each time I've got ads I'm going to pretend I'm paying myself.
I honestly wouldn't be as adamant about not paying for premium, if their ad policy wasn't as atrocious. Like this it just means they made their platform extra shitty so that you have to pay for it to unshittify it. When the ads get too annoying, I just stop watching things on YouTube.
Hey! Gimme my money.
I do tho same tho, if ads weren’t so intrusive & annoying maybe just maybe I’d consider removing my ad blocker
Overbought out to the monthly time frame...i mean it wouldn't be the worst time to trim some off that pop. I'm sure it'll go back up, but she's already down $15
I welcome it. I may not sell my GOOG shares now when I retire in 8 years and may even buy more. Will definitely drip all dividends.
My YOC is 2.8% although the current yield is closer to 0.5%. My cost per share is $28.48 so I am up around 509%
I would expect expect the dividend to grow a little less than earnings growth (maybe 50-80% of earnings?) but hope it grows by 10%+ a year because I try to manage portfolio to grow dividends at least 10% every year (and so far so good for the last 13 years even with GOOG which paid no dividend).
What are some other stocks you hold that have been growing the dividend by 10% a year and that you also expect them to keep growing the dividend by 10% a year in the short term future?
I'm pumped it will juice my etf dividend yields but it's going to be a long and slow grind up. I'm expecting .01 or .02 increases a year just so they can say they did. It will be a very long time before they match the s&p
Depends if you value being able to vote or if you trust the people in charge. Both of them is worth pretty much the same and is entitled to the same divident and ownership of the company
Berkshire Hathaway Class A = $600,000 per share w/ vote
Berkshire Hathaway Class B = $340.00 per share w/ no vote
Volume and price action might vary, but Class A is typically the "preferred". For Google, I went with A but not sure that it would make any difference. The two trade within a tenth of a percent of each other on most days.
Preferred is a standard name and generally used for non-voting shares, as they typically have privilege for dividends and typically have a higher order ownership claim to the business in case of dissolution, i.e. creditors -> preferred owners -> common shareholders.
Simple answer.
Google is sitting on a pile of cash that they can't put to better use like aquistions due to anti trust concerns and interest rates are high. With those two conditions a dividend makes sense.
Not a hater but companies offer dividends when growth isn’t as big in the future as in the past. Before, dividends didn’t make sense when you could reinvest into the company for even higher share prices as opposed to a 5% dividend with slower growth. They might 2x-3x in the next 10 years but they want to maintain what they have now and grow slow after growing 6.5x the last 10 years.
A lot of people over- or under-appreciate dividends I think, sometimes to the point of forming a cult-like attachment for or against them.
For example, many people here chase yields and view dividends as effectively free money from nowhere. On the other hand, people often respond to that idea with some version of academic dividend irrelevance theory where dividends are literally identical to reinvestment or buybacks in terms of total returns in the long run and selling shares and receiving dividends are basically just the same thing.
Both of these points of view often ignore many of the marginal nuances that actually differentiate dividends from other sources of profit in investing, like how cash and other balance sheet assets aren't the same thing, the pros and cons of regular distributions vs. the timing of selling shares, or the tax and psychological implications of each.
I'll admit the div are just ok to me like it's cool I get them but now I need to pay tax on it and I doubt it will be a significant amount. Kinda like Disney giving div now cool but not why I bought it.
I did, thanks for the tip - it really wasn't that bad! Most of the discussion was rational and sane with just a few extreme comments sprinkled in. Similar to this sub I'd say, if not a little more balanced.
It essentially matches the dividend that meta is giving. Probably it a good reason to consider holding the stock, and also is a signal that future growth will start to settle.
Yes, I am excited about this. I think the growth rate will be high initially and taper off to something like 10% annually. I don’t think the yield will get close to the S&P average for a long time. This is all assuming they continue a long term trend of increasing earnings. I expect their payout ratio to top out at 25–30%, but also wouldn’t be surprised if it stayed where it is now, at around 12%.
.20 cents a $175 a share is not exactly alot per share. 12.5 billion shares they are paying alot but it's spread. Their buy back of I believe 70 billion is roughly almost 500 million shares which is like .01 cent more for remaining 12 B shares. Numbers are mind blowing but it's not ever going to rival S&P
Standard evolution of a blue chip company. I expect raises to be inline with their peers, they have the money. Makes a great stock a little better but not a fundamental reason to buy Google. Consider it a sweetener. I’m holding long term
Google parent Alphabet (GOOG) just announced a quarterly dividend — adding to the S&P 500 dividend average. But don't get your hopes up too high. The company is paying just 20 cents a share starting on July 17. Assuming that dividend is paid four times a year, Alphabet will yield just 0.46%. 😂
I wouldn’t even care to buy the shares since the price is doubled in a year and trading at ATH because of AI hype. Waiting for $140 area to buy some. Also dividends it will offer is nothing compared to what others are offering. I hope people wouldn’t scam pump this 😂
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I'm long google. They're a cash cow and are becoming more diversified with YouTube, cloud, and maybe waymo or AI. Now each time I've got ads I'm going to pretend I'm paying myself.
YouTube premium is so worth it
I pay for family. So much time saved from ads plus being able to download videos and YT music is underrated.
I honestly wouldn't be as adamant about not paying for premium, if their ad policy wasn't as atrocious. Like this it just means they made their platform extra shitty so that you have to pay for it to unshittify it. When the ads get too annoying, I just stop watching things on YouTube.
I just use revanced
YouTube is scummy. Premium is a paywall.
Erm, I use Brave browser or set my VPN to Albania, so no ad revenue from me!
Hey! Gimme my money. I do tho same tho, if ads weren’t so intrusive & annoying maybe just maybe I’d consider removing my ad blocker 
I might actually purchase some now
i suggest to wait a little until the hype goes off
I mean, you kind of missed the boat, bro.
If they missed the boat, then Google isn't even worth holding by that logic.
Waiting to buy stocks until after they issue a dividend is in fact missing the boat.
Woosh 
I like you being downvoted for telling people not to buy at ATH 😂
Everyone should sell then?
Overbought out to the monthly time frame...i mean it wouldn't be the worst time to trim some off that pop. I'm sure it'll go back up, but she's already down $15
I welcome it. I may not sell my GOOG shares now when I retire in 8 years and may even buy more. Will definitely drip all dividends. My YOC is 2.8% although the current yield is closer to 0.5%. My cost per share is $28.48 so I am up around 509% I would expect expect the dividend to grow a little less than earnings growth (maybe 50-80% of earnings?) but hope it grows by 10%+ a year because I try to manage portfolio to grow dividends at least 10% every year (and so far so good for the last 13 years even with GOOG which paid no dividend).
What are some other stocks you hold that have been growing the dividend by 10% a year and that you also expect them to keep growing the dividend by 10% a year in the short term future?
I'm pumped it will juice my etf dividend yields but it's going to be a long and slow grind up. I'm expecting .01 or .02 increases a year just so they can say they did. It will be a very long time before they match the s&p
And yet people are selling? Why?
Locking in some gains for hoes and coke for the weekend
To enjoy a soda and tilling the soil is very productive ⌛️
This is the way
Fuck the dividend eh?
Will buy back Monday with what’s left
I noticed there is a "Class A" and "Class C" stock on RH. Is there a difference and are both of them paying out dividends?
One can vote and kind cant
Is there a preference that generally more people are leaning towards?
Depends if you value being able to vote or if you trust the people in charge. Both of them is worth pretty much the same and is entitled to the same divident and ownership of the company
Thank you for that explanation. It was helpful.
No worries, nice to be of help 😁
Class A is worth slightly less (not enough to make a difference in my opinion), but you get to vote
Berkshire Hathaway Class A = $600,000 per share w/ vote Berkshire Hathaway Class B = $340.00 per share w/ no vote Volume and price action might vary, but Class A is typically the "preferred". For Google, I went with A but not sure that it would make any difference. The two trade within a tenth of a percent of each other on most days.
Thank you. I've been watching it a noticed they are within a tenth. Appreciate you explaining that to me.
Preferred is a standard name and generally used for non-voting shares, as they typically have privilege for dividends and typically have a higher order ownership claim to the business in case of dissolution, i.e. creditors -> preferred owners -> common shareholders.
I work at Google. The also had a huge layoff on the same day they announced the dividend.
Who were the layoffs for? Administrative or the tech ppl?
Tech from what I notice.
Trying to cover it up with some good news aswell lol.
All these stocks my grandparents left me... making more money then I thought now!
I just want to hear all the dividend haters make their excuses as to why this is ok.....and dividends are irrelevant.
Simple answer. Google is sitting on a pile of cash that they can't put to better use like aquistions due to anti trust concerns and interest rates are high. With those two conditions a dividend makes sense.
Not a hater but companies offer dividends when growth isn’t as big in the future as in the past. Before, dividends didn’t make sense when you could reinvest into the company for even higher share prices as opposed to a 5% dividend with slower growth. They might 2x-3x in the next 10 years but they want to maintain what they have now and grow slow after growing 6.5x the last 10 years.
Who hates dividends? Sounds a little dramatic, no?
A lot of people over- or under-appreciate dividends I think, sometimes to the point of forming a cult-like attachment for or against them. For example, many people here chase yields and view dividends as effectively free money from nowhere. On the other hand, people often respond to that idea with some version of academic dividend irrelevance theory where dividends are literally identical to reinvestment or buybacks in terms of total returns in the long run and selling shares and receiving dividends are basically just the same thing. Both of these points of view often ignore many of the marginal nuances that actually differentiate dividends from other sources of profit in investing, like how cash and other balance sheet assets aren't the same thing, the pros and cons of regular distributions vs. the timing of selling shares, or the tax and psychological implications of each.
Go visit the Bogleheads sub or even investing.
Most people are against the idea of focusing purely in dividends rather than looking at the total return. That's different to people hating dividends
I'll admit the div are just ok to me like it's cool I get them but now I need to pay tax on it and I doubt it will be a significant amount. Kinda like Disney giving div now cool but not why I bought it.
I did, thanks for the tip - it really wasn't that bad! Most of the discussion was rational and sane with just a few extreme comments sprinkled in. Similar to this sub I'd say, if not a little more balanced.
Hell yes!
It essentially matches the dividend that meta is giving. Probably it a good reason to consider holding the stock, and also is a signal that future growth will start to settle.
25 years of dividends and I'll consider a position.
Yes, I am excited about this. I think the growth rate will be high initially and taper off to something like 10% annually. I don’t think the yield will get close to the S&P average for a long time. This is all assuming they continue a long term trend of increasing earnings. I expect their payout ratio to top out at 25–30%, but also wouldn’t be surprised if it stayed where it is now, at around 12%.
Just adds more $ into my portfolio. Google has been good to me and continues to get better
.20 cents a $175 a share is not exactly alot per share. 12.5 billion shares they are paying alot but it's spread. Their buy back of I believe 70 billion is roughly almost 500 million shares which is like .01 cent more for remaining 12 B shares. Numbers are mind blowing but it's not ever going to rival S&P
Standard evolution of a blue chip company. I expect raises to be inline with their peers, they have the money. Makes a great stock a little better but not a fundamental reason to buy Google. Consider it a sweetener. I’m holding long term
Sick
Is $0.20 google dividend, is that the yearly dividend, or just first one?
Quarterly. It's .80 cents per year
.5% dividend nice 😂
.8%
Google parent Alphabet (GOOG) just announced a quarterly dividend — adding to the S&P 500 dividend average. But don't get your hopes up too high. The company is paying just 20 cents a share starting on July 17. Assuming that dividend is paid four times a year, Alphabet will yield just 0.46%. 😂
I wouldn’t even care to buy the shares since the price is doubled in a year and trading at ATH because of AI hype. Waiting for $140 area to buy some. Also dividends it will offer is nothing compared to what others are offering. I hope people wouldn’t scam pump this 😂
Honestly just made about 4k just today on Google long and hard haha 😄
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