Sunday 29 April 2012

dividand Vs Warren buffett


Warren Buffett is one person that does not believe in distributing dividend. His company Berkshire Hathaway always attempt to retain every1$ and make that 1$ worth 2$ or more. Buffett says that if investors want cash they could sell a small percentage of their shares but as long as the company has great projects or investments to make the money will be used on those. 

His secret of being one of the richest men in the world is his ability to find the right company, which he always choose the big companies and buy big amount of shares, to make sure that he get a seat at company investor meetings.

His thinking on dividend agrees with the theory of Modigliani and Millar's idea of dividend irrelevance theory. However, will all investors like this? Because, there are investors who will demand for their returns as dividend every year.  All investors are not indifferent. 


However, Berkshire Hathaway is a successful company even without any dividend payouts. I believe this is something to do with Warren Buffett's reputation an intercity. Investors trust Warren Buffett as a leading investor  in the world makes them the assurance on their invested money. This conclude that even managers could build trust among investors, especially among investors who are concerned on long term investments to hold the investments with the firm even without dividend payouts, but emphasizing on shareholder value creation. This will enable the company to retain money to invest in much more profitable investments and projects to create long term value in return.




Source : http://video.pbs.org/video/1907176086/
              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL766NK2ynw

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