The idea seems to be only fueling shareholder ire as a PIPE would dilute existing stock equity and could deprive investors of a sale premium.
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Equity securities such as warrants, preferred stock, common stock and other equity interests, will principally be made in conjunction with debt investments.
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Single-stock futures allow investors to gamble on the price of an individual equity stock both rising and falling.
Since listing their equity interests on stock exchanges, these private equity firms have had to become responsive to this new constituency.
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If these companies had publicly traded shares of stock, the equity markets would look poor indeed.
As far as trying to do an initial public offering (IPO) of common stock to raise equity capital, forget it.
In the short run it would probably be a bit of a tonic for bank stock prices and equity markets, but it doesn't do anything to solve the problem of the euro crisis at all.
While equity stock offerings were used frequently to build their businesses, the BDCs still had large amounts of debt secured by loans and equity investments in the very companies that are most susceptible to liquidity constraints during recessions.
The Board believes that this considerable price appreciation, and the associated reduction in number of shares of stock covered by equity awards we issue to newly hired and existing employees, has reduced the perceived attractiveness of our employee equity awards.
Using debt to buy another corporation's stock or merely changing equity to debt wouldn't qualify.
Traders looking to jump on this uptrending stock should consider the equity's July 50 call.
Four in ten (42 percent) are expecting a bonus based on performance, and many also enjoy perks, privileges, expense accounts, equity and stock options in their compensation packages.
This will manifest itself in companies devoting a lower proportion of pay in time-based equity, like restricted stock, and a higher proportion of pay in performance-based equity, like performance shares.
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Southwest airlines stock tumbled after a Tuesday morning after Prudential Equity analyst Bob McAdoo downgraded the stock to "underweight" from "overweight, " citing problems with the airline's model that are not likely to be corrected soon.
Just three services currently recommend the stock, including Ford Equity Research, Navellier's Emerging Growth and the Prudent Speculator--although Navellier's staff say they are preparing for "major portfolio changes" in the next issue of the newsletter.
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.
Under the existing circuit breaker pilot, trading in a stock pauses across the U.S. equity markets for a five-minute period if the stock experiences a 10 percent change in price over the preceding five minutes.
Blackstone, however, has been able to list some of its private equity holdings on stock exchanges in recent months.
From the beginning of the year through March 23th, the stock has vastly underperformed the equity markets, falling about 4%.
Instead, most of the repatriated dollars went to shareholders in the form of dividends or stock buybacks (which raise equity prices).
Matt Cavallaro is an equity analyst for stock market education company BetterTrades.com.
Weisberg then set aside another one third of the original stock for performance-based equity that any of the distributors can earn by driving business online.
But when managements say they don't want to sell equity because the stock is too cheap, I don't really know what "cheap" means in this context.
But on paper Ben Bernanke, cheap debt, and a rising stock market have rescued private equity from suffering a complete disaster from the buyout boom of 2005 to 2008, when private equity firms raised and invested unprecedented sums of cash.
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While companies like A123 have been able to raise significant amounts of equity in the stock market when investor sentiment is high, relying upon the whims of the marketplace is not a good financial strategy, particularly when a company does not have a clear path to profitability.
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Contrary to conventional wisdom, sometimes the best way to increase a company's stock price is to sell additional equity.
The capital that earns a variable return--the equity, the common stock--is taxed twice.
Over the past decade, a period when giant stock and credit bubbles burst, equity investors were punished for taking risk.
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