Under stock-exchange rules, people acting in concert to acquire shares in a listed company are regarded as one.
Pfizer has seen its stock under-perform some of its peers like Abbott Labs and Merck as the company continues to struggle with various lawsuits and complaints.
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But the holding companies are under-performing the broad stock market.
Chris Richey: We're biased, but we think the greatest sin in modern American stock investing is the fact that both U.S. individual and institutional investors are typically over-exposed to and over-diversified in the U.S. market while being significantly under-exposed to International stock markets.
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After all, the stock has under-performed since June 19, 2006 when I wrote about breaking up the company.
Even modeling a scenario in which Nokia stabilizes next year leads us to believe that the stock will under-perform over the next twelve months.
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Martin also contends that the stock is under-owned by institutional investors.
Under the terms of the all-stock deal, Office Depot will issue 2.69 shares for each OfficeMax share.
So for investors looking for a new name whose stock is still under-owned and underpriced, and ensconced in a business that, for a change, benefits from all the problems surrounding almost all kinds of companies and industries, Navigant should be an opportunity and potentially a big winner.
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Under a look-back provision, the stock price is keyed to the offering date or the purchase date, whichever is lower.
All of the companies will trade under when-issued symbols on the Nasdaq stock market until the separations are completed on Aug. 21, when they will all commence trading regularly.
Some outsiders say their rivalry has grown more intense because the stock-exchange business is under relentless pressure.
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South Korea's currency and its stock market have been under siege -- assaults that the IMF announcement has not stanched.
Now that shares are falling, once-valuable stock options have gone under water.
Under his leadership JAL de-listed from the stock market and cut costs, shedding about a third of its workforce, trimming employee benefits and reducing unprofitable routes.
Alibaba would swap the stock of this subsidiary for just under two-thirds of Yahoo's stake in Alibaba, the people said.
Train operators will be required to invest in new rolling stock under the terms of their new 20-year franchises, which are now being negotiated.
All of these efforts explain why Qualcomm's stock has risen just under 10% year-to-date, even as the company continues to crank out strong earnings growth.
The break-up consideration due to Deutsche Telekom under the terminated Stock Purchase Agreement also included significant Advanced Wireless Services ("AWS") spectrum and a long term agreement on Universal Mobile Telecommunications Systems ("UMTS") roaming within the USA. T-Mobile USA incurred transaction-related costs in 2011 that primarily reflect incremental personnel costs as a result of the formerly proposed deal.
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Salomon Smith Barney (nyse: SBF - news - people ) is under investigation by the New York Stock Exchange for similar allegations involving WorldCom workers.
Since the start of the year, LDK has shed more than a third of its value, with the stock ushered steadily lower under resistance from its 10-day and 20-day moving averages.
This will allow the institutional investors that dominate the bond market to trade directly with each other through a sophisticated order-matching system, operated under the auspices of the Boston Stock Exchange.
Their hard-won victories placed executive compensation and stock options under greater scrutiny and led to modest changes in proxy rules and voting procedures that empowered shareholders at the expense of officers and directors.
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Now Gome founder Wong Kwong Yu, second-richest on our list last year, is under investigation for stock manipulation.
Since the epoch of supposedly subpar returns got under way, the global stock market has been enjoying markedly above-average returns.
The major banks and financial institutions in the U.S. and the U.K. are suffering under pressure from lawsuits, depressed stock prices, and investigations in-house, at the legislative level, and by prosecutors and other regulatory agencies.
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The European stock markets are under some pressure Tuesday following fresh, weaker-than-expected economic data coming out of the European Union.
Traditionally, Apple stock has a pattern of running into a product announcement and under-performing for about 30 days after the product announcement.
The stock has plunged more than 62% under the resistance of its 10-week and 20-week moving averages since November 2007.
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