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Wouldn't people still own the same percentage, but the company itself just own less?
I don't believe they can just create shares out of thin air. The company would typically own a certain amount of shares the entire time and then sell the ones they own.
So if you had 1% before and the company owned 50%, they might decide to sell half of their shares so they now only own 25% but you still own your 1%. You don't just magically have 0.5% now.
The reason the shares drop in price when this happens is because it's a sign that the company is either in financial trouble and seeking for a quick influx of cash or it's a sign that the company doesn't have much hope for its future success and wants to sell now before the price naturally starts to go down anyways.
It can be either. Calling it a new release is ambiguous. They also call it a new stock offering, which is also ambiguous but is why I presumed dilution.
https://www.activefilings.com/information/shares/
So... Not quite how it works. The company gets an authorized number of shares which it can then issue out, or sell to shareholders.
If you own 100 shares out of the 1000 they are authorized, you own 10% of the company.
Now if they request and are authorized more shares (which is what happened here), your stake in the company is cut down. Let's say they get authorized and issue another 1000 shares, bringing them to 2000 total shares. You now only own 5% of the company.
And with these new shares hitting the open market, prices will drop because now there is "more supply than demand" (it's an easy way to think about it). In theory the whole thing will eventually even out, but that generally doesn't happen here because the value of the company hasn't changed.
This whole thing is different compared to a stock split, which affects the price and the number of stocks, but not your overall stake in it. If a company does a 2:1 split, your shares will double, but the price per share will be cut in half. 10 shares at $10 now becomes 20 shares at $5... Your stake is still at $100