<i>Google offers 'voluntary exit' to all US platforms and devices employees</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42893463">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42893463</a> - Jan 2025 (41 comments)
This is the playbook of a company moving from "Growth" to "Maturity". Of note:<p>In August 2024, Alphabet announced a quarterly dividend of $0.20 per share, totaling $0.80 annually, resulting in a dividend yield of approximately 0.39%<p>At current that would mean Alphabet's annual dividend payout is approximately $9.8112 billion.<p>Now the game is to pay that dividend, incentivize people to hold the stock and reduce volatility. A dividend stock company behaves very differently than a growth stock company.<p>Whats really frightening here is that a company like Google looks into the future and sees bad prospects for growth.