Meta's Dividend Is Emphatically Not a Reason to Buy the Stock -- but This Is
Let's welcome Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) to the dividend club. Last week, the company announced that it's initiating a quarterly dividend for the first time.
The news was warmly received by investors. So was Meta's overall fourth-quarter update: Shares skyrocketed more than 20% on the heels of the company's earnings release. Meta's dividend is emphatically not a reason to buy the stock -- but there's something that is.
There were multiple articles published after Meta's Q1 update last week with headlines trumpeting that CEO Mark Zuckerberg will receive nearly $700 million per year from the company's new dividend. Those headlines were correct. However, they can also lead you to think that Meta's dividend is better than it actually is.
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