In any case they legally had to increase the A/S as the eventual conversion of preferred shares into common stock would have exceeded the A/S by 100 or so million shares.
But increasing it to 5 Billion is strange. Like all companies that issue stock I'm sure they had the shareholders in mind :-P
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