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id: "prereq-stock-dilution"
type: "prereq"
source_timestamps: ["00:19:07", "00:20:12"]
tags: ["equities", "corporate-finance"]
related: ["concept-bitcoin-per-share", "contrarian-mining-stock-dilution"]
reason: "Required to understand why traditional mining stocks often perform poorly even when Bitcoin's price rises."
sources: ["erictrump"]
sourceVaultSlug: "cardone-eric-trump-genoot-abtc-bitcoin-2026Jun25"
originDay: 2
---
# Mechanics of Stock Dilution

## What you need to understand first

When a public company issues new shares to raise capital — often to buy equipment or pay down debt — it **increases the total supply of shares** outstanding. Existing shareholders own the same number of shares but a **smaller fractional slice** of the company. This is **dilution**.

Dilution is not inherently bad; it depends on whether the cash raised generates returns greater than the dilutive cost. But it is **always a cost** to existing shareholders that has to be measured.

## Why this matters for the rest of the vault

This is the conceptual ground under:

- [[contrarian-mining-stock-dilution]] — most public Bitcoin miners constantly dilute to fund ASIC refreshes, eroding per-share BTC exposure even as total BTC mined grows.
- [[concept-bitcoin-per-share]] — the metric only matters because dilution can quietly shrink it.
- [[concept-bitcoin-accumulator-model]] — the entire model is engineered to grow BTC faster than the share count grows.
- [[action-evaluate-bitcoin-per-share]] — without understanding dilution, you cannot evaluate the right KPI.

## What to know in practice

When evaluating a Bitcoin-holding equity:
1. Pull the **diluted share count** (including options, warrants, and convertibles), not just basic shares.
2. Track its trajectory alongside BTC held.
3. If BTC holdings grew 2× but diluted shares grew 3×, your exposure shrank.