They are essentially debentures with proceeds that are paid out to investors in the form of preferred share dividends.
Each preferred share would issue 50 cents per quarter in dividends indefinitely.
Terms call for Global Crossing holders to get 16 shares of Level 3 for every Global Crossing common or preferred share held at closing.
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The preferred share is the platypus of the investing world.
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Thanks to all available connectivity options, everyone can send or share preferred music from Parrot Zikmu Solo.
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The Gallup Organization survey revealed that in the average country in which people were queried, the share of people who preferred self-employment was 12 percentage points higher than the share who said that doing so would be possible in the near term.
Two years ago, Gold's Gym asked its Facebook followers to share their preferred iron-pumping jams.
In the intervening three months, 270, 000 preferred shares have converted, so the common share count currently stands around 3.52 million, with approximately 1.13 million preferred shares remaining.
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Under the plan, the company is issuing one preferred stock purchase right for each share of common stock outstanding.
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According to Mr Lawrence's own research, a third of the fund managers who used the exchange preferred to stick to the old share-trading system, a third wanted it scrapped, and the rest cared little either way.
The earnings per share figure was up just 13% when excluding the impact of a preferred stock redemption, while earnings from continuing operations were 33 cents per share, a 43% pickup from a year ago.
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Shareholders may nominally own such corporations but their share certificates are more like preferred stock than ordinary shares.
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Former Benetton driver Wurz was also capable of taking money to Jaguar, but preferred to stick with McLaren, where he will share testing duties with Spaniard Pedro de la Rosa.
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But the iPad took the lead with an impressive 105% growth this year from 4.8% market share last year, clearly accelerating as the preferred mobile online shopping device.
Greenlight believes that Apple has the capacity to ultimately distribute several hundred billion dollars of preferred, which would unlock hundreds of dollars of value per share.
We believe, these factors coupled with the fact that NetApp is one of the pioneers in virtualization will help it gain storage market share as more organizations turn to virtualized infrastructure as the preferred way of delivering and running applications going forward.
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She was accustomed to going to the theatre with friends or with the lawyer-lover, though he preferred films, one of his limited tastes that she could at least share.
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