Fun fact, I just got a Pixel Watch and one of the primary reasons is so that I can see my sleep patterns and try to do something about them. And then I slept from like 6am to 3 pm the next day 🤣

We can do this!

Lol mine would be very similar but skewed even later

I'm just talking generically, I didn't have Apple in mind, but yes I still think you're incorrect. Reduction of the float is permanent.

I hate Apple's business practices and agree they have peaked. It's been dead to me since the 4S

Go away please, crazy person.

You have a lemonade stand. Between your 100lbs of lemons, 18 kilos of sugar, some ice cube trays, a table, and the earning potential it has over the next few months, you figure you could sell the business for $1000. This is your 'market cap'.

You want some cash right now to buy a new sign to go over your table and some other things so you decide to 'take your business public' and let 3 of your friends buy in. You split the company into 4 equal 'shares' and value them at $250 each.

Over the summer you all take turns working the stand, you reinvest the profits and open a second stand. Everything is going great until fuckin' Steve decides he's done working, wants to divest of his part of the company and relax until school starts up again.

The company is bigger now, has more inventory, more growth potential, more revenue, cash on hand from recent sales, you all decide to value it at $4000. Now if someone had $1000 they could purchase his share for themselves, but nobody has taken any profits, so instead the company buys back his share with that cash on hand. So by spending $1000 the company is now worth $3000 and is split 3 ways as that share was destroyed. Your shares are still worth $1000 each but now you own a larger piece of the company. This will mean a larger cut of future profits in the form of dividends and greater growth potential in the price of the stock, as future valuations will divide the market cap by 3 instead of 4.

I'm stoned and that seemed like a good way to explain it lol I hope it makes sense.

Edit: and I'm not American but isn't a 401k just a type of retirement account? They're just going to hold index and mutual funds.. those don't 'lag' the market, they're just collections of different equities and bonds.

I know what all of those words mean, but not in that order.

That's not how market cap works, brother.

You're hopeless. Goodbye

I don't disagree with anything you've said.

It is literally illegal for them to not do what's going to provide the best return to shareholders. Shareholders would need to take issue with whatever action was taken and take the board to court, but nobody is doing a stock buyback to personally enrich themselves.

You've mangled so many terms here I don't know where to start... Do you think there's a difference between owners and shareholders? Cashing out means selling shares, doing a buyback relies on the market to uphold the current valuation and increase the share price to keep the market cap level. If the market thinks insiders are only doing the buyback to 'cash out' and that it's not in the best interest of the corporation, that won't happen.

I'll let you get back to childish insults now.

I get that this isn't an investing sub but guys.. come on.

If it's good for them it's good for all shareholders. It is their fiduciary responsibility to do what is best for shareholders.

Stock manipulation?!?!?!? It's giving directly back to shareholders... It's a strong statement that leadership believes their stock is undervalued and that the best investment they can make is in their own company. Stock manipulation lmao

Edit: and to answer your question... Of course it's negative in this context, the money is spent.

There's high level badminton too, want to include that?

CFL is one of two national American football leagues on the planet... You don't even know it's called MLS

I'm sure more watch Premier League football too .. but MLS is still our soccer championship

I think it's the oldest major sports trophy in North America too, commissioned in 1909

Well if you look at Vancouver's teams... They play in the same stadium yet the far more popular and historical team is excluded from this.

Exactly, ruins it for me. They even play in the same stadiums sometimes lol. Including the White Caps and not the Lions is a joke

It's a major sports championship... As the title of your chart claims to represent. It is the top level of football in Canada, which is part of North America. There's no reason to exclude it except to pacify Americans.

Of course the majority would think so, Americans are self-centered lol, but this is supposed to represent North America.

IMO you either need to include it to make the title and data accurate or replace any mention of 'Football' with 'NFL'.

Is the football NFL only? I think you should include the CFL

Why it all dirty and full of poor, sick fat people then?

Sorry, my Canadianess coming through 😂

High wages for the top 1% of earners... Your minimum wage is a fucking joke

Good health care for those that can afford it... The rest die with medical debt, hence the chart above.

All your food is garbage. When I travel there I find it almost impossible to eat well without just going to the grocery store and living on fresh produce. It's disgusting.

The things you listed are only available to the well off.

Money in politics is wild