Can they do this without their board of directors and stock holders firing them?
Unfortunately for Apple stock holders, the new iPad model has not produced much excitement.
There is no reason for Apple stock holders to worry right away but there is a longer term concern.
Remote working, and overly embracing Results Only Work Environment (ROWE) has failed the stock holders, the customers and the employees at Best Buy and Yahoo and has resulted in horrible financial performance in the past several years.
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The smaller float creates bigger gains in rallies when buying pressure dominates and there are fewer stock-holders willing to sell, but larger declines if unexpected negative news brings in selling pressure, since there are fewer bargain hunters aware of the stock and looking to buy.
Stock options give holders the right to buy shares at a specified price, known as the strike price.
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If growth like that continues, the stock should reward holders handsomely.
And it led to a situation in which folks with the most to lose -- stock and pension holders -- had the least to say in the process.
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If you hold any of the GM debt issues, you may have an optimal time to sell these after the stock value has been established since the debt holders will be getting stock once the bankruptcy has been confirmed.
Last time Hyatt was a publicly traded company, 30 years ago, Jay Pritzker controlled the vast majority of the company's stock, and large holders of the shares complained the brilliant financier tended to cut deals that favored him first and other investors second.
Many holders of Apple stock are breaking basic investment rules, however.
It proved prescient, because just 17 months later, last March, Malone combined Ventures with Liberty, paying still more Liberty tracking shares to holders of Ventures stock.
Snyder explained to get the necessary votes, Icahn will need to win the favor of the mutual funds that are the largest holders of Motorola stock.
In a letter dated Jan. 13, Deephaven Capital Management, one of the ten largest holders of Guidant stock, told Guidant's board that the Boston Scientific offer was clearly superior.
Accordingly, it is expected that no distributions will be made to holders of common stock and the common stock will be extinguished upon consummation of the Chapter 11 plan.
If accepted, the bid would negate an agreement last month for Verigy to merge with LTX-Credence (LTXC) in a stock swap in which Verigy holders would end up with 56% of the combined company.
In total, holders of Class B stock control approximately 98% of the voting power of outstanding stock.
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It compensated holders of Liberty tracking stock by handing them its own issue of Liberty tracking stock.
The government placed both inept giants under conservatorship last September, promising to buy up to 80% of their preferred stock and to extend protection to holders of their securities and debt.
If criminal charges were filed--even without ever being tried--AIG's stock price would plummet, institutional holders would be forced to sell because of their own bylaws, and the company could lose the sterling credit quality it needed to write insurance and derivative contracts on favorable terms.
Put options, which give holders the right to sell stock at a prearranged price, are complicated enough.
Yucaipa has agreed to backstop the program, meaning it will buy any stock that isn't purchased by other holders.
Incentive stock options can provide substantial income to its holders, but the tax rules for their exercise and sale can be very complex in some cases.
Scholey, the chairman of the compensation committee (holders of 8% of the stock reportedly either voted against his reelection or abstained), complaining of a conflict of interest.
This is an important process where weak holders are shaken out to set the stock up to rise higher in price.
Were Congress to approve a change in the law, he thinks the company would bring some of the cash home and pay out some of it to holders in the form of dividends or stock repurchases.
One, for the stock market as a whole, we are buy and holders!
Holders of Genzyme Tissue Repair and Genzyme Surgical Products stock will hold 27% and 26% respectively.
Einhorn in particular is opposed to a measure to be voted on by Apple holders that would make it tougher for Apple to issue preferred stock.
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Messrs Breyer and Thiel were elected by stockholders of, respectively, the holders of a majority of the shares of Series B preferred stock and Series A preferred stock.
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