Current shareholders will see their stakes sharply reduced, and perhaps eliminated.
Colonization costs money that shareholders on Earth will never see a return on.
That way, shareholders could see how much wealth executives had already banked.
Under that view, the shareholders would have seen only half of what the judge awarded them.
But shareholders saw the value of their holdings decline 18 percent last year.
Some shareholders saw returns 1,000 times their original investment.
Once that happens, those shareholders may see their dividends cut.
Not all shareholders saw it that way when they received their proxies last spring.
Not a breath of it did the shareholders ever see.
Companies worried that shareholders might see discounted options as a sign of lost confidence in the stock.