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Re:Inequality, Interest Rates, Aging, and the Role of Centra... by MuffinFlavored on Thursday December 29, 2022 @11:47PM (#34181902)
> Investing in stocks does provide jobs and income to others. When you buy stocks, the money goes to finance the business.

could somebody expand on this please? as far as I understood it, companies like Apple don’t issue shares very often. How does the share price going up go to their business unless they issue more shares (diluting existing shareholders)?

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Re:Inequality, Interest Rates, Aging, and the Role of Centra... by toast0 on Friday December 30, 2022 @12:05AM (#34182005)
Doesn't Apple use stock based compensation and doesn't that involve issuing stock?
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Re:Inequality, Interest Rates, Aging, and the Role of Centra... by WalterBright on Friday December 30, 2022 @12:15AM (#34182060)
I don't know what Apple does. Of course, Apple could buy it on the market and hand it to people to exercise their options. But the usual thing is the company creates the stock and hands it out.
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Re:Inequality, Interest Rates, Aging, and the Role of Centra... by zeusk on Friday December 30, 2022 @03:21AM (#34183075)
Every company maintains a treasury of stock; SBC comes out of that but it is indeed newly issued shares that dilute the holdings.

However, with Apple and similar companies - they buyback A LOT more of the stock than they issue in SBC.

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