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The Stonk Exchange

Paid when the business does well

Every day, each company pays a share of what it took in to the players who held its shares through the whole day. Paid in chips: spend them, or cash them out as $TOWER.

  • Every day
  • Just after midnight UTC
  • Paid in chips

Every company's takings and payouts are public on its page.

The rule

Hold through the whole day

A day runs from midnight to midnight UTC. Only are paid: buying during a day counts from the next one, and selling during a day leaves only what you never sold.

Held all dayPaid on every share
Bought at 15:00Counts from tomorrow
Sold half at 10:00Paid on the half never sold
Sold and bought backOnly what was never sold
The day closes at midnight UTC. A few minutes later it is paid in chips, straight into your balance.

Your share

The more you held, the bigger your slice

The day's payout is shared between the shares held all day, in proportion. Drag to see your part:

Everyone else held 4,000 all day, so you get 11.1% of the day's payout.

Two wallets holding a hundred shares each are paid the same as one wallet holding two hundred. Splitting up gains nothing.

Where it comes from

Takings, not promises

A dividend is paid out of what the business really took in that day, from the players who used it. Its contracts are paid first; of what is left, 30% goes to the shareholders, which is 24% of the day.

  • 20of 100ContractsListed on ContractX as jobs for players, hour by hour, each one a race.
  • 24of 100ShareholdersPaid the next day, split by the shares each held all day.
  • 56of 100The treasuryKept as the house's own: it stands behind casino wins and free chips.

  1. 01Players spend in town

    Bets, tips, cars, aircraft, race pots, clothes: each lands with its own company.

  2. 02The day is split

    The company's day is counted: 20% funds its contracts, 24% goes to its shareholders, and the treasury keeps the rest.

  3. 03You're paid

    Every day at 00:10 UTC, in chips, with a notice saying how much and from which company. The casino's too: its settled day is split and paid the same way.

Bad days

A losing day is earned back first

Only the casino can have a losing day: when its players win more than they lose. That day pays nothing, and the loss has to be earned back before the casino pays again.

  1. Day 1Paid
  2. Day 2A loss: nothing paid
  3. Day 3Earns day 2 back: nothing paid
  4. Day 4Paid again

A payout is never taken back. A loss after a good day just means the next good days go to making it up.

Big days

No cap on a good day

However big a company's day, its shareholders get their share of all of it. Nothing cuts a payout down.

Nothing is promised either: a company can have a quiet day and pay little, or a losing one and pay nothing, for a day or for many.

Keeping track

Where to see your dividends

  1. 01A notice

    Each payout pops up with the company, the day and the amount.

  2. 02Your portfolio

    What each company has paid you, over the last week, month and all time.

  3. 03The company's page

    Every day it paid, what one share held all day earned, and why a day paid nothing.