pump2dump wfmi,

You are the one incapable of reading financial statements. Here are the actual financial facts taken from Whole Foods 2005 Cash Flow Statement:

Net cash produced from operating activities (meaning selling groceries)--$410.8 million

Net cash produced from selling stock (the conversion of stock options)--$85.8 million

Net cash needed for investing in operations--$322.2 million

What does this mean? It means that the company produced about 5 times as much cash from their operations as from selling stock through the exercise options. These facts prove your statement "WF generates more cash from SELLING stock than from selling food" to be a false statement (whether from your inability to read financial statements or because you are liar I cannot know for sure--please tell us which alternative it is).

It also means that the company produced from operations $88.6 million more money than they needed for their growth. Add the $85.8 million from the sale of stock and you have 90% of the money the company paid out in their special dividend in January.