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

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If instead of giving out dividends, public companies bought total market index funds, which companies would be the biggest?
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[-]Pattern4y20

Reminds me of the exercises by abstractapplic.

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What was it?

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Usually posts with: "D&D.Sci" in the title.

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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.