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Shortchanging small, uninformed shareholders at the time of worst crises in a century !!

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A shareholder deploying dividend proceeds to buy additional shares in the same company is equivalent to a shareholder not tendering for buyback, while dividend encashed for other pursuits is equivalent to a shareholder tendering his / her shares.

Inverting, if buybacks / dividends have no difference in the hand of the shareholder, why would they be different to a company? Only due to the quantum?

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Each shareholder's free to do stupid things with his money on his own volition, like buying overvalued stock. A few owners or managers aren't free to do so with company money that doesn't (entirely) belong to them.

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yes, fair point, thanks!

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"Value destruction by buying back overvalued stock..." An investor can simply tender in the buyback to avoid this issue, no?

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Value destruction is for company

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