As far as trying to do an initial public offering (IPO) of common stock, forget it.
However, this gets tougher if there is a valuation premium on the common stock.
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The fund currently has most of its funds invested in the common stock of financials.
The company also said it will buy back up to 5% of its outstanding common stock.
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Another advantage in buying only non-voting common stock, is that it is very entrepreneur-friendly.
Teco's new 9.5% preferred is mandatorily convertible into common stock on Jan. 15, 2005.
Fledge takes a small stake in the startup with 3% common stock, 3% redeemable stock.
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By contrast, Cook only has 13, 754 actual shares of common stock right now, according to the proxy.
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During the Welch era GE investors received amongst the highest rate of return on any common stock!
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In addition, because a portion of the aggregate merger consideration would consist of Microsoft common stock, we would provide Yahoo!
The oil-services company said it was offering 26 million shares of common stock for sale to the public.
Once the offering is completed, Ellison and his family will control more than 65% of NetSuite's common stock.
In the event of an IPO, all preferred stock becomes common stock, and the preference stack goes away.
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While the common stock would fall in price, the preferred stock would offset that and add additional value.
It will be necessary for the company to hold additional common stock offerings or to issue debt securities (bonds).
And in nearly every case, as with Alcoa, the common stock looks expensive, but the preferreds look decidedly reasonable.
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Today it begins swapping its AIG corporate stock for common stock with the intent to eventually sell those shares.
's common stock and its income securities have been way overhammered by the fallout from General Motors' well-publicized woes.
That's better than what the average common stock has returned in this century.
Under the plan, the company is issuing one preferred stock purchase right for each share of common stock outstanding.
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Today, 86 extended family members hold all 71 million Class B shares, plus a negligible amount of common stock.
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Yet not accepting that preferred to common stock ratio is at the core of the Winklevosses appeal in California.
Germany has issued Commerzbank with hybrid capital that bears losses alongside common stock, but which gets a fixed coupon.
IPOs and common stock offerings flourished, as did venture capital and angel investing.
That works when you have very liquid securities, such as Treasurys or the common stock of IBM or GE.
That's a 19.8% premium on the closing price Friday of IBP common stock.
Under its reorganization plan, LyondellBasell issued common stock through a rights offering and in exchange for allowed creditor claims.
The capital that earns a variable return--the equity, the common stock--is taxed twice.
Most companies use share buybacks or pay special dividends on their common stock to return excess cash to shareholders.
The underwriters also have an option to purchase up to an additional 12, 915, 000 shares of Class A common stock.
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