Healthcare: Shareholder Dilution and You
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2016
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Is shareholder dilution always a bad thing? What does it mean for you as an individual investor? What does it mean for activist investors? In this special crossover episode of Industry Focus, Kristine Harjes and Gaby Lapera present two case studies in healthcare and financials to illustrate the complexities of shareholder dilution.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:07.0 | It's November 16th. I'm your host Christine Hargis and I am pleased to welcome Financial's host Gabi Lapera in the studio for |
| 0:15.2 | crossover week. Hey Gabby! Hello everyone I'm super excited. It is always |
| 0:21.1 | awesome to be able to do the show with somebody in the studio. |
| 0:24.6 | I love you to death Todd Campbell, but it is so nice to have somebody that you can look and |
| 0:29.5 | gesticulate to and have right here. |
| 0:31.8 | You just feel the energy energy feel the love. |
| 0:33.8 | I totally feel you I think that you and I are the only host that consistently |
| 0:37.1 | have our analysts like in the cloud somewhere. |
| 0:40.8 | Yeah this is super cool I'm to look at you this entire show. |
| 0:44.0 | Don't get freaked out. |
| 0:45.0 | I will probably avoid eye contact. |
| 0:47.0 | Okay. |
| 0:48.0 | So, anyway, today we are going to be talking about shareholder dilution. |
| 0:53.0 | And of course, since it is crossover week, |
| 0:55.2 | we want to put an emphasis on our two respective sectors. |
| 0:58.2 | So we'll kind of try to focus it |
| 1:00.4 | with the lens of both health care and financials. So I figure we'll start off with some |
| 1:06.2 | basics. Gabby do want to kick it off and tell us a little bit about what dilution is, why it matters? |
| 1:11.6 | Yes, I would love to. So dilution much like the chemistry term |
| 1:17.1 | means that you are becoming less concentrated so shareholder dilution in particular means that two, two really |
| 1:26.0 | important things. One, that the economic power of the share that you hold is less and two your voting rights are less |
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