Meta Platforms Inc.’s efficiency-obsessed investors don’t like to see the company spend money. Unless — and this will shock you — it’s going into their pockets.

The company’s announcement on Thursday that it will pay its first-ever quarterly stock dividend at 50 cents a share — and increase its share buyback plan by $50 billion — set off shareholder fireworks: Up more than 15% after hours, Meta was the best performing of the big tech stocks reporting earnings this week.

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A Revived Meta Buys the Permission to Keep Spending

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02.02.2024

Meta Platforms Inc.’s efficiency-obsessed investors don’t like to see the company spend money. Unless — and this will........

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