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Comment by dh2022

3 years ago

"Any company can theoretically choose to not be profitable, by reinvesting all of its profits, and investors typically don’t care if their value is returned via growth or dividends. " - the Amazon model for its first 20 years :).

Amazon was founded in 1994 and it started to make profits reliably in 2016 : https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/net-in...

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