Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (21787)	10/15/1998 9:01:00 PM
From: OtherChap	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 164684

>Just a tad dilutive. Yes, for a normal company that actually turns a profit, yes. But since Amazon only produces losses, increasing the number of outstanding shares means their loss per share result will go down- about 5-8 percent it seems. This may be the ace Bezos has up his sleeze. Just print more shares, and voilla your losses get smaller. (at least to the average newbie investor, who after all is the fodder for these elephants) They dont have to fool the analysts- they are already involved in the scam and are helping to promote it. They just have to keep up appearances. Nobody will notice the tiny footnote explaining the losses went down because there are simply more shares out there.