will be a 15 million reduction of earnings/price ratio for everyone else that owns shares.
Rounding for ease - based on 1,000,000 in earnings and 100,000,000 outstanding....
100 million shares at .01 eps * 10 p/e = .10cents a share
15,000,000 of that will be 150,000k in earnings that none of us will realize - which is 15% basically
if you remove the 15 million in the OS the pps based on the same is like .1176 per share
now, you take a lower OS and that percentage goes up
Depending on how you look at it but the stock divvy's might be a good thing, but this depends on if the "owner" of the 15,000,000 that are not retired is getting the divvy's too.
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