Mar. 22 at 2:28 PM
$GOOGL buying more and
$LITE today.
$LITE has 9 Million Shares forced buys at any price at open. There are ONLY 72 million Shares, A TINY FLOAT! LITE is being added to the S&P 500 before the open on Monday March 23, 2026 as part of the quarterly rebalance . This triggers structural, price-insensitive buying from passive index funds and ETFs that must match the new index weight. Exact Size & Weight- Current market cap: ~
$50.4B (based on ~71.4M shares outstanding / 70.8M float)- Expected S&P 500 weight: ~0.084–0.09% (S&P total market cap ~
$58–62T range).Passive Flow Estimate-Benchmark AUM tracking the S&P 500:
$7T+. Total position required across trackers:
$5.6B–
$8B+.-Incremental buying pressure on/around effective date: Hundreds of millions to potentially
$1B+ in forced purchases (roughly
$6.3–7B aggregate or ~9M shares at ~
$710 levels). EVEN 20–30% of the flows hitting on Monday equals a massive multiple of normal volume and can easily move the stock 10-18%+intraday. Enjoy friends
