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ahhh just diluting the shares when I had room mates who were tesla guys they were excited for the 4 to 1 split and it made me think?? why would u be happy with your stock being diluted now u need more people to pump ur bag in...their response was well I still have the same amount of money and more tesla stocks now...i was the only one looking at the dilution lol it was wild

Splits don’t cause dilution.
Issuing stock causes dilution.

If you have a pizza and cut it into 8 slices, then cut it into 16 slices, the pizza is not diluted.

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Splitting is essentially issuing stock due to supply going up. I would say but great analogy my thing is bitcoin doesn't do that y u see price where it's at microstrategies will never reach that due to these splits same as tesla

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Yes, after a split an individual share is worth less bitcoin per share from MSTR treasury equity, but this does not matter for the existing holders.

Everyone has exactly the same amount of Bitcoin before and after the split — there is no dilution, as everyone just gets a proportional slice of their existing position.

Nobody loses out in a split. It’s the same amount of underlying. It generally a good thing to keep stocks in a range $1-100 because it makes options contracts cheaper (contracts are sold as bundles of 100 shares underlying).

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So even the unbluvht shares don't get split just share holders??

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Stock splits are common once a share price gets over $1000

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So if I buy 2 stocks out of the 100 it splits and I sell 4 back then how does that not add? Putting 4 into 98 ? I appreciate u explaining it so i can grasp

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The market cap doesn’t change.

The value of your holdings doesn’t change after a split.

To paraphrase the pizza 🍕 analogy from above, stock split represents the number of slices not the size of the pie. 🥧 pie size does not change.

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Gotcha gotcha idk I'm just not in favor of it but investors love it so good for them heard Warren buffets stock never split lol it's at 600k 🫠

Unbought? There are no unbought shares. There are 17.74M MSTR stocks out there with an owner. Outstanding stock means stock that’s out there. Every order on an exchange is still stock owned by the person making the exchange.

All these holders have have 10 the shares and 1x the Bitcoin.

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Thanks for deciphering unbought

Stock dividend on August 1

Trading on split adjusted basis will commence on August 8

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very good analogy

I read on X that Saylor wants to make MSTR options cheaper

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That would be reasonable guess — options can drive the price and the easier these are to buy for retail, the more likely they will gamble with them.

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