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Mark Zuckerberg made $29 billion this morning after Meta stock makes record surge (www.cnn.com)

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Mark Zuckerberg made $29 billion this morning after Meta stock makes record surge::Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth increased by more than $28 billion between your morning coffee and your lunch break.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

On Friday, shares of Meta (META) jumped more than 20% on the news of a quarterly dividend of $0.50 per share to be paid out on March 26 to shareholders of record as of February 22.

Let me get this straight: Meta said that for every stock you have month from now you will get $0.50 two months from now and people started buying like crazy. So basically people are betting that they will be able sell the stock right after Feb 22 before it loses more than $0.50? Am I getting this right? This system is so fucked up...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

No, the idea is that a stock that previously never provided a dividend now suddenly is.

This means that now their stock may meet criteria for certain types of institutional investment holdings that look for or require dividends.

At this point, a lot of the stock market is traded less on "the market thinks this company will do well" and more "my algorithm thinks other algorithms will value this stock in a given way."

For example, IIRC the majority of trade volume is after hours, meaning that while the markets are closed to main street investors is when the value of companies is really being decided between brokerages and institutional investors.

While not entirely a rigged game because companies actually doing well does tend to result in net price increases, a significant portion of the money to be made in the stock market is unequivocally rigged.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So basically people are betting that they will be able sell the stock right after Feb 22 before it loses more than $0.50?

Not necessarily. With all it gained, they can even sell tomorrow. Or at any point before it takes the next massive hit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I mean, yes, you're right but nothing about the company changed. So people betting that the stock will go up are basically betting that people will buy it for the dividends.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

The stock market is a ponzi scheme. More news at 11.