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They didn't, though. Their shareholders did. Big difference.
Sort of. Nvidia buys billions of dollars worth of its own shares every year and retires the shares in order to drum up the value of the rest of the shares people own, so it's kind of like it wasted billions of dollars if the price fell back down.
Wasted is a relative term since the remaining shareholders see the percentage of the company they own increase and the stock price dropping makes it cheaper to buy more shares thus continuing to drive up the percentage of the company owned by the remaining shareholders
You missed a step. if the price goes down, the current share holders lost money, regardless of how big a percentage of the company they own in stock is.
Short term, sure. But again, that a good thing for them. Prices crashing is only a bad thing for some people. When the stock market tanked in '08 alot of people lost alot of money but the richest people made bank. You're 401k was trashed and tons of millionaires were suddenly broke but guys with billions in liquidity like Warren Buffet started buying whole companies on the cheap. Anyone who had to sell a house was fucked but anyone who could power thru made great returns.