JD
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JD
@kaoticrunner
size 12 mostly sometimes 11.5/13!


The ATM trend continues: Following $IREN's massive $6B ATM offering filing, $AAOI has followed suit, filing for its own $250M ATM. Do you know what an ATM actually is, and why it should concern you as a shareholder? Let me explain An At-The-Market (ATM) offering is a mechanism a publicly traded company uses to raise cash by creating new shares of stock and selling them directly into the open market at the current trading price. Imagine a company that owns a glass safe. In the safe is exactly $10. The company has 10 shares at the moment, all trading at $1. If you own 1 share, you have the right to 10% of what is in the vault (so, $1). It is an open market, so everyone can see what is in the safe. The company now wants to do an ATM of $5, which means they will be looking for 5 new shareholders to put $1 extra in the safe. If 5 new shareholders put an extra $5 in the safe, the safe will be worth $15 and there are now 15 shares. Still all worth $1. You now own 6.67% of a $15 company instead of 10% of a $10 company. So, if the math balances perfectly, why does the stock price almost always drop? 1. True, for the first part of the explanation we can stay with our virtual safe company. Why would a person pay $1 to get a $1 share in return? There might be a risk that the safe gets stolen. He wants a return. So to convince new investors, you will probably have to sell the new shares at $0.95. This has an immediate negative impact on the existing shareholders. The more shareholders you need to find, the lower the convincing price will become. When the price drops, existing shareholders might want to sell as well. This can become a negative spiral. 2. Another immediate impact is that the EPS will drop. Let's say that after the money is 1 year in the safe, it will return $0.1. So in the beginning the $10 will return $1 each year. Every investor will get $0.1 and the EPS will be 0.1. Now there is $15 in the safe, but the last $5 will not return money for another year. The $1 realized profit will now have to be divided over 15 shares. The EPS will automatically drop to 0.067. 3. For the final negative part, we need to leave the safe example. In a real company, the value is different for every investor. The share price is a constant battle between supply and demand. With an ATM, the supply obviously increases while the demand might not. The demand could increase as well, as investors might think that the board might do great things with the new money. But when the ATM is big, the pressure of the constant new supply might be overwhelming. Conclusion So, the share price certainly does not have to come down with a small ATM. If investors trust the company to achieve high returns with the fresh money, the ATM might be a great decision. But the 3 consequences explained here will put constant pressure on that stock price. Convincing new shareholders, a lower EPS and a constant new supply of shares might be costly for existing shareholders.


Unpopular opinion SpaceX ipo is bad for $TSLA Tesla stock






@aleabitoreddit @Kaizen_Investor I feel like you are way too much focused on the dilution. If they excecute their GW pipeline properly the dilution is just noise. Demand for available GW is so massive and i do think most data centers will have massive delays and also though time to get financed. So imo $iren ☝️



$MSFT. Short term it should find footing around 375 200WMA followed by a relief bounce.








Good morning! On 2/21 I predicted a $VIX to 30 by mid March and we got it. I think a DCB is likely, but another -3% to -5% on $SPY is very likely by early/ mid April. This is an opportunity to scoop some of your favorite names up at discount, remember that. Long term vision.

THIS IS A BLOODBATH AND ITS GETTING WORSE🚧 $META is tanked $40+ TODAY and $MSFT is back UNDER 2023 LEVELS... The Mag 7 was warning us of more selling but these names STILL have more downside. Yes more downside is likely but I CANT SAY IT ENOUGH, these are OPPORTUNITIES 👇










