Apple directors gave Mr. Jobs the restricted stock in exchange for stock options that were then worthless, but which ultimately would have been worth more than the restricted stock had Mr. Jobs held them.
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The entire complex arrangement was treated by the IRS as a tax-free stock-for-stock merger.
The entire complex arrangement was treated by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service as a tax-free stock-for-stock merger.
The deal would likely be stock-for-stock, The Wall Street Journal reports, and lengthy discussions have taken place.
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Today it begins swapping its AIG corporate stock for common stock with the intent to eventually sell those shares.
That's the way stock-for-stock mergers work most of the time.
While the flood of supply into the market will overhang the stock for a while here, this also represents a major milestone for the stock that should lead to a little more optimistic take from the Street.
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The best way to protect yourself is to use limit orders when placing an order to buy or sell a stock or an exchange-traded fund. (See How Your Buy and Sell Orders Get Filled for more.) Look at the bid-ask spread and set your price limit at the bid for selling a stock and at the ask for buying a stock.
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Earlier in January, Nasdaq sent them a letter threatening to delist the stock for having a stock price below a dollar.
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Once the company sold its stake in Mosaic, officials at the nonprofits were able to exchange the private Cargill stock for public Mosaic stock.
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That is, in the euphoria of an exciting bull market rally investors may be willing to pay 20 times earnings for a stock, while in the throes of a market decline they will perhaps pay only 10 times earnings for the same stock.
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The reason to keep the position small is because in my analysis Nokia is a speculative stock and we have firm guidelines for speculative stock that limit the position size.
As editor of Forbes Dividend Stock Daily , I need to recommend a dividend stock for subscribers every day.
For many deep pocketed skiers the difference between stock and custom is equivalent to one or two post skiing massages sprung for because the stock boots left them sore or the day of skiing paid for but missed thanks to burnt out legs.
The bad weather effectively extended the stock lock-up for Facebook employees since there was no market for their stock.
It could be viewed as similar to purchasing a stock and immediately putting in a limit order to sell the stock for which you are being paid.
Such restricted stock awards are the generally fashionable replacement for the stock options of yore.
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This presents a unique opportunity for noncorporate taxpayers to invest in Section 1202 stock for the next year and enjoy the benefit of tax-free gain on a subsequent sale of the stock five years down the road.
Under the plan, the company is issuing one preferred stock purchase right for each share of common stock outstanding.
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Charles Allmon , editor of Growth Stock Outlook, has been pounding the table about the way companies account for stock option grants to employees.
Shareholders of Wendy's will receive 4.25 shares of Triarc Class A stock for each share of Wendy's stock they own.
The SEC is also still dithering over rules for the JOBS Act, which would allow crowdfunding for stock offerings and fiduciary rules for brokers.
The founder-entrepreneur purchases his stock for a penny a share and the VC general partner is allocated a percentage of the stock (if the VC firm is profitable) without paying extra for it.
It means that there are more buyers who can run Facebook stock farther compared to the potential buyer pool for Apple stock.
In place of stock trading for a finance house he was now teaching stock trading, in classes he had organised and marketed via Eventbrite.
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Continued signs of an improving economy and rising stock prices are giving AAII members reasons to stay optimistic about the short-term outlook for stock prices.
The only reason to so abundantly use stock options (and not, for instance, stock) is that they stimulate top managers to take more risk.
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The very fact of Facebook offering its long-coveted shares to the public will reinvigorate demand, not just for its own stock but for the whole tech sector.
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Then, a pullback during which the stock traded lower for three days in a row (the final two in technically oversold territory) led to a rally in McDonalds that took the stock higher for three out of the next four sessions.
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