>Company A buys Company B for $40billion >Buys x-number

Yes now you are responsible for running said company and increasing its value to actually make any profit.

Also when one company buys millions of shares of a company to take control of it, which shareholders get a piece of that? Like, which 51% of random shareholders sell their shares and which 49% get diddly squat?

>>1632708
Its not pure cash. Lets say company A buys company B. Shareholders of company B are paid in pure cash.

Company A get equity (assets and so on) but has no money. If you want to turn equity into "pure money" you have to sell it.

In other words - can you do it? Yes you can but you can't make a positive return becouse you didn't buy just buildings etc, but you also bought stuff like their logo etc. and you can't really sell it.

Only way you can make money that way if company is really going down (huge debt) and you pay it off (banks want their shekels).
But there is a reason why that company is going belly under etc.

>>1632708
Company A gives Company B the money. Company A now owns company B, but has given the money to the company that they own. Company B, although owned by company A, is the owner of the money, and can walk away with the money if it isnt contracted that they need to stay. Company A taking this money back from them is called stealing.

>>1632708
are you retarded? If company A buys company B it doesnt pay the company it pays share*the wait for it*HOLDERS to buy *wait for it again* SHARES. Or it simply buys rights to the business from the owner, leaving him either with position and a salary or getting him the fuck out of the company if it is a smaller company.