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Re:Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture by skissane on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @03:51PM (#43018197)
> How much of their balance sheet is debt vs equity?

I believe it is almost all equity, not debt.

There is such a huge demand to invest in them, they are able to attract all the investment they need through equity. Given the choice between them, like most companies, they prefer equity over debt. Plus, they have other mechanisms to avoid excessive dilution of Elon Musk's voting control (non-voting stock, they give him more stock as equity compensation)

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Re:Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture by eru on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @02:15AM (#43022722)
> Given the choice between them, like most companies, they prefer equity over debt.

What do you mean by 'most companies'? Many companies use debt on their balance sheet just fine, and even prefer it. Banks, famously, have to be restrained from making their balance sheet almost all debt.

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