Another option would be to spin out the units as publicly traded companies, either through initial public offerings or stock dividends to shareholders.

另一个选择是通过首次公开募股或是向股东派送红股将子公司作为单独的上市公司剥离。

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Apple has partnered with a few retail chains such as Best Buy and Walmart, but those stores always seem to get a small number of units in stock.

苹果与一些连锁零售商合作，如百思买集团和沃尔玛。但是这些商场只有少量的存货。

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Many retailers reported running out of stock within hours, and analysts estimated sales to hit 1m units during the weekend.

很多销售商都表示短短几个小时之内新版iPad就被抢购一空，分析员预计iPad2的销售量将在周末期间达到100万台。

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That is, share repurchase can change the units of measurement in a security and companies have to decide how leveraged the stock will be, which changes the stock price--leverage, meaning how much debt the company takes on.

即 股票的购回会改变,已发行股票的单位数量,公司需要决定,股票的杠杆效用是多少,杠杆会改变股价,杠杆指的是公司举债的多少

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Another 133 million shares will be unlocked between now at November 13, along with 55 million shares tied to restricted stock units and another 55 million related to employee options.

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Among other things, the company sad that on October 25 the company expects to issue 124 million shares to employees that hold restricted stock units issued prior to 2011.

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But by last Friday, when each Best Buy was supposed to have three of the units in stock, he was able to set out and make the purchase.

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