Tesla loses money because they're building factories and inventing batteries, not because they're bad at what they do.
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Forbes:
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Ford shares have fallen 1.3% in the past year, 44% in the past 5 years, and, astoundingly, 64% in the past 20 years. Ford has paid out $10.06 billion in common stock dividends in the past 3.5 years, a period in which the company’s equity market capitalization has declined by nearly $20 billion, from $56 billion to the current level of $36.8 billion
The dividend is not supporting Ford's share price. Paying out $10 billion to produce a $20 billion diminution in equity value is not sound financial strategy, to say the least.
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A dividend that comes at the cost of reducing your stock's value is a pretty bad idea. GM paid dividends until a few months before their bankruptcy- a bankruptcy that Ford avoided by borrowing early, waiting for the other two to dissolve, then using the threat of bankruptcy to extort a restructuring of that debt. Both are models that should not be emulated. Basically, aside from shuffling money around to line their own pockets, they suck at what they (ostensibly) do.