"It was priced in."
If a company with very stable stock price announces that one year from now, they'll pay out $50B to their CEO, the stock is not going to stay steady the whole time then exactly on the day of the payout, fall by $50B. The stock is gradually going to go lower, because everybody will take into an account that in 12 months, 9 months, 6 months, 3 months, tomorrow, the company will pay out $50B and rate the stock accordingly the more it becomes certain that the payout will effectively happen.
In fact, the stock went up when Elon announced yesterday he was getting the $56B, because people were finally able to stop taking into account the risk he would leave Tesla out of spite for not receiving the payout, which would have hurt the prospects of the company even more than the $56B payout.
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