I'm the CEO of Google and I call the broker and I say, how many shares are outstanding?

如果我是谷歌的执行总裁,我给经纪人打电话问,一共发行了多少股票

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All that matters is the ratio: how many shares I own divided by the number of shares outstanding.

比例才是最根本的要素,我有的股数除以总发行股数

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People don't usually know how many shares are outstanding in the company that they invest in.

人们通常不知道,他们所投资的公司到底发行了多少股票

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It doesn't mean anything until you know how many shares are outstanding because if I own one thousand shares and then you look it up and find out how many shares are outstanding-- there are one thousand-- you say, hey I own the whole company.

这毫无意义,除非你知道总共发行的股票数量,如果你有十手股票,但后来发现,总共发行的股票数量,就是一千股,你就可以说,整个公司都是我的

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