If instead of giving out dividends, public companies bought total market index funds, which companies would be the biggest?

post by Mati_Roy (MathieuRoy) · 2021-06-15T17:07:05.338Z · LW · GW · 3 comments

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Feel free to make simplifying assumptions or give partial answers (ex.: just links for some of the raw data).

Raw data needed for this calculation:

• dividends given by each public companies (or at least the biggest ones)
• historical value of each public companies (or at least the biggest ones)
• historical value of a total market index fund (failing that, top 3000, or top 500 companies)

Can be restricted to the US.

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