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Re:WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO by YPCrumble on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @01:28PM (#21062528)
Is this part of the business model of these large, unprofitable VC-backed companies? Build a valuation to meet the 8.1bn threshold, then sell the shares to passive investors in S&P 500 index funds?
Re:WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO by mruts on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @05:38PM (#21064905)
No. The S&P 500 is selected by committe. And it's 6.1bn, not 8.1bn. Mabye that's the plan for the Russell 3000, though.

But it doesn't really matter except when the stock gets added to the index. The index funds and ETFs are going to rebalance their positions based on market cap and will not affect the price. These funds could affect the volatility though, since it's conceivable that with a lot of the shares locked up, these stocks are going to be more thinly traded than they would have otherwise been. This could create price instability, though I'm not sure there's any proof that it's true.

Re:WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO by rwmurrayVT on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @08:58AM (#21070291)
Not true. [0]

>...Unadjusted company market capitalizations of US$8.2 billion or more for the S&P 500..... are required.

[0] https://us.spindices.com/documents/methodologies/methodology...

Re:WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO by mruts on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @05:46PM (#21075897)
Hmm. I guess it just changed this year. My bad!
Re:WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO by rwmurrayVT on Thursday September 26, 2019 @11:38AM (#21081942)
I saw $6.1b first as a Google given answer. It said different on Wikipedia so I investigated the source. I knew my high school teachers were wrong about Wikipedia!
Re:WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO by kgwgk on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @06:12PM (#21065175)
> But it doesn't really matter except when the stock gets added to the index

It does matter when there are inflows, if there is new money coming into index funds all the stocks in the index benefit (they funds also sell all the stocks in the index when there are outflows). Non-indexed stock are less coupled to flows in and out of trackers.

Re:WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO by hef19898 on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @02:26PM (#21063174)
And for VC's to build a story and evaluation interesting enough for SoftBank to buy in? Because it sometimes seems like it...