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- From: fate@grove.ufl.edu (Joshua A Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Buy Amiga <Stock> Was: Carl Sassenreuth at VIScorp
- Date: 15 Apr 1996 17:19:56 GMT
- Organization: University of Florida
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- Lee (lee@insync.net) wrote:
- : >Why not have every Amiga user on the planet buy 1 share of VIScorp
- : >stock? We would probably be a majority... for once ;-)
-
- : >Pete Wason
- : >aka Mr. Zoon ~8▐
-
- : Now THIS is a good plan. First, it may not give controll of the company,
- : but it would be a significant voting block. Second, after announcing that
- : they want AT, they would get a BIG influx of capital. This speaks to them in
- : words even wall stree can understand. It could make the difference between
- : R&D and RIP... Do we still have any brokers around?
-
- This is actually NOT a good plan. When a company sells stock for the first
- time (IPO), they sell a predetermined amount of stock at a slightly below
- market value to Stock Brokers. This guarantees the company sells ALL of the
- issues of stock. The Major Stock Brokers then bear the responsibility in
- selling the issues (of course at a few dollar(s) above what they paid for
- it).
-
- So when someone buys shares of stock for the first time in a company on
- the NYSE, they are paying money to a previous owner, NOT the company.
-
- So if Viscorp wants to raise ADDITIONAL money, they would have to issue
- additional shares, thereby diluting the value of their shares and making
- a majority harder to get. Don't go out and buy a share of Viscrop and
- thinking the money went to Viscorp. They've already gotten their money
- from their IPO. Your money is going to Joe Schmoe down the street.
-
- The only way for Viscorp to make money off of you buying shares is for
- it, as a corporate entity, to hold some shares of stock itself. When you
- (many people) buy the shares, the price goes up, and Viscorp theoretically
- has a higher value (plus they get their dividends at the year end also for
- the shares of stock it owns).
-
- Hope this helps.
-
- Josh Johnson
- University of Florida
- "Oh, Lord it's hard to be humble..."
-