Are they trying to confuse or fool somebody?

就是为了愚弄股东吗
Well, there are different views on that.

关于这一点人们有不同看法
One of them is yes, they are trying to confuse and fool somebody.

其中一个答案就是的确他们想糊弄你
If they don't have money to pay dividend

如果没钱付股利
they can always do a stock dividend.

那就发股票股利
On the other hand, some people say, well that would backfire.

此外人们可能要说这会起反作用
If they're going to pay stock dividends and try to fool us,

如果发股票股利只是为了愚弄我们的话
what's going to happen?

接下来会发生什么呢
The price of a share is going to fall on that day.

当天的股价会下跌
When you pay out stock dividends you

当你发放股票股利时
would think that now there are more shares,

就会意识到股票总数增加了
everyone divides by the larger number of shares,

每个人的股数除以增加后的总股数