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Compsognathus posted...

What would the greater, short-term profit be by shuttering the FAQs?

Like the fundamental idea behind your hypothesis is missing.

It looks better on the quarterly papers.

Even places like Stanley Black and Decker sold off struggling divisions instead of righting the ship and keeping them as a trickle of stable revenue. And it was all in service of making sure they didn't break their century long record of offering a dividend.

The stock price of their company is directly impacted by their quarterly portfolio. And stock prices right now, for the investors and the board who can parachute out whenever are more important than a healthy business with longevity that only makes a tiny razor of profit on the regular.

It's the difference between shareholder and stakeholder economics.

Fandom is acting like a vulture capitalist firm like Bain. There'd be a bump in the numbers from selling off GF for parts, so to speak, and it'd be a bigger bump now than just keeping it alive as-is.

The actual business can die if the investors can make 10 more dollars today, instead of 11 dollars over 10 months.