In just one month, from Nov. 11 to Dec. 10, the Shanghai B-share index soared 88%.
But with B-share holders calling the shots, such firms tend to underinvest, leading to lower sales growth and valuations than with single-share-class firms, according to a study by Harvard Business School's Paul Gompers, Stanford's Joy Ishii and Wharton's Andrew Metrick.
It dropped down below its 2003 Series B price per share within the first four months of trading, seven years later.
Class B holders will likewise get one AMC share for every four Cablevision Class B shares held.
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Typically, their A-class stock entitles owners to one vote per share while B-class bestows ten votes.
Typically, their A-class stock entitles owners to one vote per share, while B-class bestows 10 votes.
There is speculation that Marathon, an American oil company, may dispose of its 32.5% share in Block B, in southern Sudan.
The Class B shares will carry 10 votes per share, while Class A ones will have only one.
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An open, healthy and honest change effort requires a conscious, compassionate, and caring focus on people a proactive, honest and organizationally-responsible effort that transcends logistics, politics, market share and all the other B-school and Wall Street Journal analytics that most change management efforts focus on, almost exclusively.
B, a satellite company, saw its share price rocket after announcing ambitious Internet expansion plans.
More than a year after it authorized its share repurchase, Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK.A)( BRK.B) has bought back its own shares.
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B-shares leapt in price during September amid rumours that the government might allow the share classes to merge.
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