Shares
101Retractable Preferred Shares — A specific type of preferred stock thats lets the owner sell the share back to the issuer at a set price. Typically, the issuer can force the redemption of the retractable preferred share for cash at maturity. Sometimes instead of cash,… …
102allotment of shares — the process by which members take shares from a company is the issue of shares; this ends with allotment, when individual shares are assigned to particular holders. A previously unissued share is allotted when a person acquires an unconditional… …
103authority to issue shares — the shares of a company, apart from those taken by the subscribers of the memorandum, are issued by the board of directors (subject to the condition that they may not issue shares beyond the amount fixed as the authorised capital of the company) …
104repurchase of shares — Under Chapter VII of Part V of the Companies Act 1985, a company can repurchase its own shares whether or not they are redeemable. The procedure requires shareholder approval and the appropriate power in the Articles of Association. The price… …
105Authorized shares — Number of shares authorized for issuance by a firm s corporate charter. The New York Times Financial Glossary * * * authorized shares authorized shares ➔ Share * * * authorized shares UK US noun [plural] ► FINANCE AUTHORIZED SHARE CAPITAL( …
106preferred shares — give investors a fixed dividend from the company s earnings and entitle them to be paid before common shareholders. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary See: preferred stock. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary Payment of dividends to holders normally takes …
107delta shares — ➔ Share * * * delta shares UK US noun [plural] ► STOCK MARKET used in the past to describe shares in small companies that are not often traded …
108cash-and-shares — UK US adjective [before noun] ► FINANCE used to describe a takeover (= when a company gets control of another company) in which the buyer offers a combination of money and shares to shareholders: cash and shares bid/offer/deal »Shareholders can… …
109partly-paid shares — UK US noun [plural] (also partly paid stock, partly paid up share capital, contributing shares) STOCK MARKET ► shares that have been bought, but for which the company has allowed shareholders to pay only part of the total value: »A company can… …
110Loans for shares program — Part of the overall program of privatization under Boris Yeltsin, the “loans for shares” scheme saw the regime auction off large bundles of stock shares of formerly state owned enterprises. Payment was made in the form of loans, which, if… …
