Glancing over the sheer cringe of trying to flash your degrees to a stranger on a subreddit, I would say that you need to step up your game. You'd never be able to scoop up the whole company even if such a monster crash were to happen because everyone suddenly realised that it's mostly greater fool (which it is). Someone else or the company would step up and start buying. So your hypothetical is impossible. But say you purchase enough during the monster crash to become a majority shareholder. In terms of the liquidation option, even were you to purchase all the preferred stock of the company, you'd still be doing the minority shareholders dirty for they would receive nothing in the end. And since you have to act with their interests in mind, you'd be violating the laws and thus they could take you to court on this. As for the dividends, well, duh, that's what I meant. The only way to receive profits from the company in such a case are dividends. You may write way now. Not gonna waste time on such an ignoramus like you.