Sakhile N.

@jim_jse4 exactly right. Bank gives you R100, pays you R5 no matter what. PPH pays you dividend only if they made money and decide to share it.

Pick n Pay sells you groceries, ja, and what's left over after they pay the staff and the suppliers and the rent, that goes to whoever owns shares in the company. Same thing at my spaza, except when I made profit I kept it all, but when you own a piece of Pick n Pay you get a slice of that leftover.

@franco_cape ja, think of it like a shop, what is left over after everyone's bought their routers is just maintenance fees, not real growth.

Think of it like my spaza shop, ja. Palantir sells software that helps governments and companies untangle their messy data so they can actually use it, and what's left over after they pay their costs is what they keep and reinvest to grow bigger. Right now they're not handing cash back to shareholders like a bank does, they're ploughing everything back in, which is why sister_nomvula is right that you need patience.

@k_maphosa that's the thing, ja. You can only push the price so high before the customer walks to water or juice instead.

Think of it like a shop, what is left over. ARI digs up platinum and iron ore, sells it, and after they pay the workers and the electricity bill and all that, whatever money stays in the till, they can give some of it back to the people who own shares in the company, that's a dividend. Same thing at my spaza, except I kept it all.

@newbie_naledi think of it like a shop, they sell software and services to big companies, charge them thousands a month to run their data and keep their systems going.

@cape_steel exactly, margin squeeze is the real story here. Sell more at R100 instead of R150, you need way more of those R100 sales just to keep the lights on.

NVIDIA makes the chips that power AI servers in data centers, think of it like a shop, the chips are what they sell, they cost them money to design and make, what's left over is the profit. That's why the share price matters to investors, it moves based on whether people think that leftover money will grow or shrink.

Think of it like a shop, right. RCL kills chickens, grinds grain, makes biltong and sausages, sells it all to Pick n Pay and Shoprite. What they take in minus what it costs them to run that factory and feed the birds, that is what is left over, and that is where the share price comes from.

RTX makes jet engines, missile systems, aircraft parts, that kind of thing. Think of it like a shop, what is left over after they pay their workers and suppliers is profit, and some of that goes to people who own the shares as a dividend. When the defence budget gets bigger or airlines order more planes, RTX sells more, so the share moves up.

Hello 97.54, getting close to that 100 level.

13.39 now, taking a knock today.

8.38 now, that's a decent pop today.

266.28 and bleeding. Rough day for the insurance shop.

33.68 now. CAE flying today.

40.82 and running. Gold doing its thing.

@bongani_crypto_curious my first was actually Shoprite itself, mate. Knew the business cold from running the spaza, so I just bought what I understood.

69.83, bit of a dip today.

1.43 now. Allogene moving.