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Let's say we've got a company here that has exactly four shares just to simplify things.발음듣기

Obviously, very few companies have only four shares, but this will simplify the explanation.발음듣기

And let's say that each of those shares right now they're trading in the market, or I guess we could say the last transaction that's occurred in trading in the shares, they're trading at $2 a share.발음듣기

So the market is saying that each of those shares are worth $2.발음듣기

There's four of these shares in total.발음듣기

And we're going to assume that this company has no liabilities.발음듣기

So the shareholders just outright own the assets.발음듣기

So if there's four of these shares times $2, the market is saying that this company's assets are worth exactly $8 right over here.발음듣기

The market value of the assets is the same thing as a market cap in this case because we have no liabilities.발음듣기

Now what I want to think about is what happens if the company wants to raise some more money?발음듣기

Let's say that they want to issue some more shares and sell them to raise some money to buy a factory or whatever.발음듣기

So what they literally do is the board approves for them to literally create two more shares.발음듣기

So now they have a total of six shares outstanding.발음듣기

And then the company goes, they get an investment banker, and they do a secondary offering in the public markets.발음듣기

And they sell these incremental shares.발음듣기

And they're able to sell them - let's just say for simplicity - at $2 per share.발음듣기

Normally when you increase the supply a little bit, you won't get quite what the previous market value was, but you get roughly $2 a share for simplicity.발음듣기

And by selling two shares that it just created for $2 a share, the company is able to raise another $4.발음듣기

So the whole reason why I'm going through this exercise is to ask a question.발음듣기

Did dilution take place?발음듣기

And there's different ways to think it.발음듣기

When you think about dilution, it's like you could imagine if you have a sweet syrup and if you add water to it, it becomes less sweet.발음듣기

Each kind of a cube of that water, each drop of that water has less sugar in it.발음듣기

You've diluted it.발음듣기

And so there seems to be an analogy here.발음듣기

We now have more shares for the same company.발음듣기

And it is true.발음듣기

If you are the owner of this share over here before the share offering up here, you owned 25% of the company.발음듣기

After the share offering, you own 1/6.발음듣기

So after, you own 1/6 or approximately 16%.발음듣기

So it looks like the percentage that you own of the company has been diluted.발음듣기

And that's true to some degree.발음듣기

But sometimes the dilution takes on another meaning, that somehow because more shares are being used for the ownership of the same company, that maybe these shares are worth less.발음듣기

And that's the one thing I want to challenge.발음듣기

There is dilution in the percentage you own, but there is not dilution in what the shares are worth.발음듣기

Because before, if you had four shares representing something that is worth $8, now you have six shares representing something that is $12.발음듣기

Because the company didn't just issue these shares and get nothing in return for it.발음듣기

It got $4 of cash.발음듣기

You can't debate the value of $4. $4 are worth $4.발음듣기

So now the assets of the company are worth $12.발음듣기

So you have $12 of assets, no liabilities, six shares, $12 divided by six shares is still $2 a share.발음듣기

So the value per share has not been diluted, just the percentage of the company that you happen to own.발음듣기

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