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If you can buy an "investment" now (let's not worry about what it actually is, yet) that will give you a series of payouts in the future

I'm still waiting for someone to commit and say "the endgame for stock purchasing is dividends"....

If that's the case, I get it. However, I'd be very interested in looking at all the non-dividend-paying stocks on the market, say, 20 years ago and seeing how many of those have started paying dividends since then and how much those dividends paid out as a percentage of the stock's market price at the time of purchase. I seriously doubt I can get my hands on that sort of data, though.
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Bitt Faulk