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More than two-thirds of his share purchases went to equity the Glazers held, meaning Ratcliffe paid the family $1.18 billion last year, around double what the common stock of the team was worth.
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Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 15 Jan. 2025
By March 2022, Musk had acquired beneficial ownership of more than 9% of Twitter’s outstanding common stock.
—Bloomberg, Orange County Register, 15 Jan. 2025
The complaint further alleges that, due to Musk’s failure to timely file a beneficial ownership report with the SEC, investors who sold Twitter common stock between March 25, 2022 and April 1, 2022 did so at artificially low prices, thereby suffering substantial economic harm.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 14 Jan. 2025
SiriusXM is expected to report a loss in 2024, but this downturn is entirely due to a one-time, non-operational event: the conversion of Liberty Sirius XM Group tracking shares to common stock.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 15 Jan. 2025
By March 2022, Musk had acquired beneficial ownership of more than 9% of Twitter’s outstanding common stock.
—Bloomberg, Orange County Register, 15 Jan. 2025
The complaint further alleges that, due to Musk’s failure to timely file a beneficial ownership report with the SEC, investors who sold Twitter common stock between March 25, 2022 and April 1, 2022 did so at artificially low prices, thereby suffering substantial economic harm.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 14 Jan. 2025
SiriusXM is expected to report a loss in 2024, but this downturn is entirely due to a one-time, non-operational event: the conversion of Liberty Sirius XM Group tracking shares to common stock.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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“Common stock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/common%20stock. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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