Each are selling a relatively small slice of stock, about 9% of total shares outstanding.
The May total was 3% of the total shares outstanding on the Big Board.
At the time, we owned 0.2% of the total shares outstanding in Yahoo!
The company also announced it was placing an additional 22 million shares in a secondary offer, which constitutes 18.3% of their total shares outstanding.
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Short interest on Swatch has doubled since January, according to a note from Data Explorers Friday, to just below 4% of total shares outstanding on loan.
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There was a bear raid on Bear Stearns starting March 10 that sent its stock plummeting 60% in the span of five days on trading volume that exceeded its total shares outstanding.
Best Buy's strong results for the three months ended Aug. 28 were due to tight expense controls, increased sales of cellphones and services such as connecting televisions with home networks, and a stock repurchase program that reduced total shares outstanding.
One caveat about buying Dawson is that the stock has a very small float of just 5.1 million shares (and 5.6 million total outstanding shares), even after a recent secondary stock offering to finance the purchase of more equipment and to hire more crews to fill its nine-month backlog of orders for service.
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the Daily 20 Year Plus Treasury Bear 3x Shares ( AMEX: TMV) where the total number of shares outstanding decreased from 17, 850, 000 to 3, 650, 000.
While there are no hard and fast rules, option pools for early stage companies with high-growth potential often provide for a pool of option shares that would represent between 15%-20% of the total outstanding shares of the company.
It said it will sell 229.4 million shares, or about 15.3%, of Direct Line's total outstanding shares.
The total number of shares outstanding in the combined company would be approximately 252.7 million.
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When public companies reduce the total number of shares outstanding by 1.3%, that means that institutional owners of stock have more money and less shares to chose from.
Less obvious, but historically better for shareholders in terms of higher stock prices, companies can reward existing shareholders by using free cash flow to reduce the total number of shares outstanding.
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Most majority stakes require owning more than 50% of total outstanding voting shares.
Most country funds, like other index funds, are market-weighted, meaning their exposure to different stocks is based on the total value of the stocks' shares outstanding in comparison with the market capitalization of other shares in that market.
However, more than half of that activity was a single company, EQR, and the total represented less than 0.25% of outstanding shares.
Bumi said that it received a request from the Bakrie Group to cancel their indirect 23.8% shareholding, in exchange for an equivalent value of PT Bumi Resources shares representing 10.3% of the total outstanding share capital.
The deal dilutes current shareholders as it grows the current shares outstanding by 19% to 70.9 million in total.
With no further trades since then, he owns a total of 5, 382, 040 shares, or 4.2% of shares outstanding.
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The company is also famous for having Fairholme investor Bruce Berkowitz as owner of 27.47% of its outstanding shares, which amounts to 7.1% of his total portfolio.
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Outstanding margin loans total a paltry 1.5% of the value of shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
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