Based on your financial expertise, provide your response or viewpoint on the given financial question or topic. The response format is open.

If a stock doesn't pay dividends, then why is the stock worth anything?
Most companies get taken over eventually. More to the point, ANY company with a public float over 50 percent that's large and viable enough to fall on people's radar screens will get taken over if its stock price is "too low" relative to its long term prospects.  It is the possibility of a takeover, as much as anything else, that bolsters the stock prices of many companies, particularly those that don't pay dividends. In essence, the takeover price is just one large liquidating "dividend."