RE:AnyoneShorts are irrelevant. Share ownership is registered. Lending shares out to a shorter for sale doesn’t change the share count. The lending broker will pay out a div to the new owners, but recover theirs from the shorter.
Moemoney42 wrote: Does anyone here know the short answer to whether or not the short count (now at 15,510,000 up 8% since last report on NYSE) is factored into the overall dividend payout amounts on the balance sheet..? In this case $3,567,300 would be paid by the shorters and not VET for the next monthly payout. So if a short average was 10 million shares each month for the year that would equate to 27.6 million not coming out of VET's pocket to cover in dividend payments.
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