Meta and Alphabet s new dividends reward shareholders especially the founders

Get the Full StoryAfter the tech giants announced their first-ever stock dividends, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin, each stand to make hundreds of millions of millions a year.

Paying a dividend for the first time is a big deal for a giant company that has been focused on growing as rapidly as possible without worrying about sending periodic cash payments to its shareholders. So it s a very big deal when two of America s most valuable companies Google-parent company Alphabet and Facebook-parent Meta announce that they re going to start paying dividends to their shareholders, as they ve both done recently.

Share: