Preferred shares rank higher than ordinary shares when it comes to paying out a company's assets.
Fintecna will acquire all Alitalia Servizi's preference stock and 49% of its ordinary shares.
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Non-U.S. companies must trade in the U.S. as ordinary shares or American Depositary Receipts.
Shareholders may nominally own such corporations but their share certificates are more like preferred stock than ordinary shares.
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President Boris Yeltsin said foreign investors could buy no more ordinary shares in Gazprom , Russia's gas monopoly.
Under the terms of the agreement, Samsung will receive consideration consisting of 50% Seagate ordinary shares and 50% cash.
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Zoran holders will get 1.85 ordinary shares of U.K.-based CSR in the form of American depositary receipts for each Zoran share held.
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Alibaba said it financed the deal with a mixture of cash, senior debt and the issuance of convertible preference and ordinary shares.
Manchester United has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to list Class A ordinary shares on the New York Stock Exchange.
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The review included addressing the investment performance of the company and the discount at which the company's ordinary shares traded to their net asset value.
These are a special type of share that pay a regular flat dividend in perpetuity, and which receive their payment in preference to the dividends paid out on ordinary shares.
At the start of 2011, Allen converted 2.2 million shares of super-voting stock to ordinary shares, meaning he no longer retained a 35% voting interest associated with his super-voting shares.
BMW's ordinary shares, and big long positions in their preference shares, will hinge on whether they were kept in the trading book or the so-called banking book, where WestLB makes strategic investments.
Kroenke now holds 18, 649 ordinary shares, which is 29.9 percent of the club but just below the 30 percent holding which would trigger a compulsory takeover bid for the north London team.
But as these three banks aren't publicly traded, the Spanish government said it would give the holders of their newly created ordinary shares the option of selling them to the country's deposit guarantee fund.
Vodafone's Web site says that the Bank of New York, as custodian of the company's ADR program, held approximately 12.5% of the company's ordinary shares of 10 cents each at 23 May 2005 as nominee.
Even if the public were being offered a majority economic stake in Hyatt, the family is planning to hold special "class B" shares that have 10 times the number of votes that ordinary shares do.
Throw in state taxes in bad places like New Jersey, New York and California, and you will be giving away half of your dividend income in taxes when you own ordinary shares of stock in a taxable account.
Superglass also warned "if for any reason the refinancing does not proceed, it is likely that existing shareholders' ordinary shares would have no value and that the company would likely enter into administration or some other form of insolvency procedure".
One of the main factors behind the surge in shares has been a willingness among ordinary people, such as students and pensioners, to buy shares.
As soon as returns on shares started looking decent, ordinary Cypriots piled in.
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The problem for ordinary investors is that American teams rarely sell shares to the public.
All these nest eggs of Berkshire Hathaway shares are the trust funds of the ordinary shareholders.
Others allowed hedge funds to make quick in-and-out transactions with fund shares, thus hurting portfolio performance for the ordinary investor.
Many, but not all, preferred shares produce qualified dividend income that is taxed at a preferential rate of up to 20% versus the ordinary-income rate of as much as 39.6%.
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