How do Holding/Investment Companies make money when purchasing huge blocks of shares?

Question

Example: Firm buys 5 million shares of company X stock. OTHER than the stock going up after, is there a way for them to profit from buying stock of company X? I see this a lot lately and it seems the stock always goes down? Ty

In: Economics

Answer 1

Dividends if the company is turning a profit.

And trusting that the market goes up again so you can also sell shares if needed.