RE:@LargeinvestWell come up with a counter argument rather then saying "reaaaaaaaaaaaaallly" like some 13 year old teenage girl to his daddy..How would cutting the dividend benefit the shorts? I've laid why it wouldn't benefit the shorts...VET would be aligned with ARX and WCP , the other two big companies with yields between 7-8%...and the $200 million that could be freed up would create a situation where, at $55 oil , VET would trade at 25% free cash flow yields and could use the extra funds to immediately buyback shares pushing up the stock. So again how does this benefit the shorts? As sherry laid out when ALA cut the dividend the stock dropped initially...however they did this during December 2018 when the overall market at the time dropped 20% due to the feds interest rate hikes and then tax loss selling took over. After it was done ALA bounced right back up and is now green from that event as if nothing happened.