Yumeshin failed to block Japan Engineering's defences of a stock split and an equity warrant issue, but the Tokyo District Court laid down reassuring criteria for their use: that they must not simply be in the board's self-interest, and that they are subject to shareholders' approval.
Both the SEC and the exchanges use the data to determine whether a stock has high enough and persistent enough trade settlement failures to warrant including it on a list of similar securities for which special trading restrictions are supposed to kick in.
You might want to be along for the ride, especially if you believe that the value of EK stock has fallen due to ephemeral matters like ITC-driven headlines more than the underlying realities warrant, and that the company can compete with the likes of Lexmark (NYSE: LXK).