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Re:Buybacks at $46B a Month Dwarf Everything in U.S. Market ... by wlievens on Monday April 04, 2016 @01:10AM (#11419562)
Well in theory, if your shares are diluted /2 but the company's capital is x2, and all that capital is used efficiently, you have not lost anything either. Half slice of twice the pie.
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Re:Buybacks at $46B a Month Dwarf Everything in U.S. Market ... by baus on Monday April 04, 2016 @01:52AM (#11419679)
That makes sense. It is true the shareholders will own a bigger piece of a smaller pie.
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