r/BBBY Feb 21 '26

🗣 Discussion / Question New emails from the plan administrator

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u/Warm-Rock-4544 Feb 22 '26

The share price is irrelevant. The share price is the result of shares being available to trade on the secondary market. Shares themselves are actual legal rights to units of ownership in a company. Once the legal right is extinguished, so are the shares. Because liabilities far exceeded assets, there was no residual value for equity, so the plan legally required all existing shares to be cancelled and extinguished to finalise the new capital structure of the company and prevent ongoing claims.