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Re:GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine by tremon on Thursday January 28, 2021 @06:57AM (#25940767)
Dividends reduce SE

By what mechanism does this happen? Paying dividends doesn't affect the amount of shares outstanding nor meaningfully impact the market cap?

Re:GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine by mrep on Thursday January 28, 2021 @08:05AM (#25941242)
It absolutely does, it is just hard to notice because it is small enough and distributed over time thus making it hard to see in a market cap graph especially when most of the value in the market cap is dominated by expected future earnings.

If apple were to do a 1 time 150 billion dollar dividend, you would almost certainly see their market cap drop by a similar amount the day after. However apples market cap is 2.39 trillion so that is still only 6.27% of their market cap and could get drowned out by normal daily swings. Highly doubt it though and I would expect to see a corresponding runup to the event to claim the dividend and a corresponding drop after.