Does amazon pay dividends to shareholders?
I ask because a friend told me long ago that amazon doesn’t turn a profit. The idea is that it retrenches and grows and makes its stock more valuable. I don’t necessarily believe that. It’s something I was once told. I simply don’t know.
But my point is this: amazon stock could plummet one day. If Bezos has stock and née-MacKenzie has liquid assets from the divorce, then she has something real and tangible from amzon’s best years while he has penny stocks. And if they are still such good friends (so they say), then who can say they _won’t_ remarry one day while each has their fun/lives their life in the meantime? Then they both have their billions from when amazon was riding high and stockholders are left with the remains of a Sears-like empire.
...Or is that far-fetched?
Amazon has never paid a dividend.
I guess Jeff can sell whatever stock he has and still have a staggeringly care-free life on a tenth what his ex-wife would have.
Lex Luthor (a.k.a. Jeff Bezos) said long ago that he spells Profit as Prophet: He is always reinvesting money so as to take over another slice of the economy, hence no dividends: Profits are always predicted sometime in the nebulous future. It is deliberate.