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Agreed, and if you don't like how the company is being run - sell your stock.

Generally speaking, this idea we have these days that activist shareholders can come in and dictate how a company is run is insane.




It's not insane, and it's not a new idea. That's always been a right you have as a shareholder in a public company.

And you don't vote by selling your stock, you vote via proxy ballots. Which too many individual investors don't do.


Yes, you get a vote which is a simple yes/no on whatever is brought to a vote - but you don't get to say what is voted on.


Second this motion. These shareholders are not family holding shares in a family business. If they’re not voting by selling their stock then can we really say they’re fed up?




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