Comment by fshbbdssbbgdd

Suppose Uber issued $1B of stock, sold the stock on the open market, then gave employees a $1B bonus. Did Uber incur a $1B expense by paying the bonus, and if so, did they also earn an offsetting $1B in revenue by selling this stock, so this set of transactions should net to zero on the earnings statement? Isn’t this the same thing as stock compensation with an extra step? What am I missing here?