How do companies create wealth for shareholders? July 24, 2026
Motley Fool Money

How do companies create wealth for shareholders? July 24, 2026

B1IntermediateJuly 24, 20261 hr 27 min

We know how companies make money - they keep their costs lower than their revenues. But that doesn’t mean shareholders necessarily get wealthier. Scott and Andrew chat about the different ways companies can create wealth for shareholders, including reinvestment, acquisitions, dividends and buybacks. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Welcome to Motley Fool Money, the podcast that loves creating value. In fact, I'm pretty sure the ROI on your podcast listening time has just gone exponential. Not because I'm here, I'm Scott Phillips from The Motley Fool, but because he is here, the man who can create something from nothing, who going from zero to one is just like waking

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up in the morning. Such is the size, the heft, the impressive momentum and the world-changing possibility of Australia's premier online investment club, known of course as strawman.com and he is known as Andrew Ram Page. Ram, g'day. G'day, mate. Yeah, waking up's probably actually, I hear you say that, is probably the best example of zero to one I've ever heard actually.

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Now that I think of it, I was like, yeah, because the alternative is zero to zero, right? And once you're at once, you can't wake up again. Yeah, right. You know?

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