Savvy investors care about both the number of shares outstandind
AND
What's behind it.
Otherwise you realy do not have a clue what your shares are realy worth.
You either understand that and have a personal agenda trying to influence some thru a message board (using half thruth if thruth at all) or you do not, therefore should not even play the market (because that's all it is right now a play).
Normally the sharecount is very important. But in this case the numbers may be as misleading as the information about the sharecount published by the company. If no information can be counted on the sharecount hardly seems as important as it usually is.
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