• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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    • Minimum Market Capitalization of $8.2 billion
    • Structured as Corporation Based in the U.S. with Common Stock in Capitalization
    • Listed on an Eligible U.S. Exchange (e.g. NYSE, NASDAQ)
    • Positive Reported Earnings in the Most Recent Quarter and on a Trailing Twelve Months (TTM) basis – i.e. the Sum of the Most Recent Historical Four Quarters

    This last one is interesting. Large companies with very risky cash flows are excluded from the S&P 500

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      These are the requirements you need to fulfill before a board of investors decide. I don’t think they need to have anything else than “We don’t like you anymore” to get rid off it.

      But yeah, October the 23rd will be an exciting day.

      On a different note, musk said it himself that only a fascist takeover of trump can spare him from jail, so even he knows he and his company is cooked, if laws finally catch up to him.