How is stock price in dollars important. Isn’t share price contrived by market makers? [re: shares outstanding, balance sheet value of company] For instance, stock splits can change the share price. What are the parameters of a FB IPO?/secondary “new” shares issued and splits? All for the options and derivatives market correlation and to keep things orderly, organized. But what about computers that can create “order”?

Yeah, pontoon boat for the masses.  Oracle will be the first ones to meet the boat people and get them to shore.  Ellison would go down in history as a hero: it's what he really desires.