Monday, February 22, 2010

OS From 10B to 20B

The limit on the number of common shares that can be issued has been raised from 10Billion to 20Billion. As of the 15th of February, GreenShift had just under 8B (7,950,481,840) shares outstanding. The company believes that they will need to exceed the 10B shares soon - and that is the reason for the increase on the limit. GreenShift has a large legacy debt and shares are being used to service that debt by paying the main creditor (YAGI) with shares. YAGI is limited in the % of shares they can hold so the shares are normally sold immediately into the market. Anytime the OS in increased it can hurt the value of an individual share, if the value of the company does not increase at, or more than the rate of OS increase.

When they asked Yogi Berra if he wanted his pizza cut into 4 or 6 pieces he said: "You better make it 4 - I don't think I'm hungry enough to eat six pieces" Not sure if it really happened, but its my favorite dilution story. If the pies stays the same size - and if you have more pieces - they get smaller. If the actual number of shares doubles - and the company does not increase its market capitalization - then each share is worth half of what it was before. If the company doubles in value as it doubles the number of shares - the value of each share stays the same.

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1269127/000126912710000021/gerspre14c22210.htm
SkunK

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