How to Use preferred stock in a Sentence
preferred stock
noun-
Part of the package may include non-voting preferred stock.
— Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2019 -
And the preferred stock pays a generous dividend of 8% per year.
— Matt Egan, CNN, 10 Jan. 2020 -
About 60% of the money the two funds committed is in the form of preferred stock, which delivers a return of 7% a year and limits their risk.
— Rory Jones, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2022 -
The new investors are coming in through what Uber Freight says is a Series A preferred stock financing.
— Jennifer Smith, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020 -
The company will pay its founder with $40 million in cash on hand and the remainder in redeemable preferred stock.
— Dallas News, 14 Nov. 2022 -
Asia’s tech stocks have taken a hit from the recent tech sell-off, but UBS sees promise in the sector, naming its most — and least — preferred stocks in it.
— Amala Balakrishner, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2024 -
This is because the value of a preferred stock is inversely tied to interest rates.
— Kaitlyn Koterbski, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2022 -
Another unanswered question is whether meme-stock investors will rally around the preferred stock enough to raise its price.
— Lucy Brewster, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2022 -
One of his go-to stories involves convertible preferred stock.
— David Segal, New York Times, 1 July 2019 -
And that's after putting $10.3 billion into the company through both common and preferred stock.
— Erik Sherman, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2019 -
Kim’s simple, four-ingredient dashi is now my preferred stock, his beef short ribs my favorite one-pot braise.
— Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2020 -
The deal was valued at around $750 million, including the repayment of debt and redemption of its preferred stock.
— Allison Prang, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2017 -
SpaceX plans to sell another $165 million in equity and preferred stock.
— Justin Bachman, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2020 -
And if things don’t work out, existing owners might not be any better off since preferred stock ranks above common in bankruptcy.
— Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2023 -
Each share of preferred stock would confer voting rights, and would immediately be worth double the purchase price, or $420.
— Scott Nover, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2022 -
The largest adjustment to shareholder value was $204 million in preferred stock.
— David Trainer, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021 -
The current preferred stock offering has a $9.3 million target.
— Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 7 July 2020 -
McMenamins is offering preferred stock, a type of investment that functions like a loan in many respects.
— oregonlive, 19 May 2020 -
The investors will receive stock in the company valued at $2 per share, along with convertible preferred stock that could pay dividends every three months.
— Stan Choe, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2024 -
Interest expenses related to the preferred stock added $38.7 million to its losses in the first half of this year, the company said in its second-quarter report.
— Jennifer Smith, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2018 -
Second, unlike common stock, preferred stock does not confer voting rights.
— Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 7 July 2020 -
Upon the deal’s completion, Foxconn expects to hold all the startup’s outstanding preferred stock and 18.3% of its common stock on a pro-forma basis and will have the right to appoint two members to the board of directors.
— Sean McLain, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2022 -
However, the original investment was in the form of preferred stock and warrants to buy common shares, which were recently exercised.
— Matthew Frankel, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2017 -
The preferred stock, which also had special voting rights, is held by early venture investors including Benchmark.
— Katie Benner and Mike Isaac, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2017 -
Torchlight said last week that the deadline for closing the agreement with Metamaterial had been extended to this Wednesday to allow for payment of a preferred stock dividend.
— David Wethe and Sergio Chapa, San Antonio Express-News, 24 June 2021 -
The company was sued in February for allegedly rigging a shareholder vote that would allow AMC to convert preferred stock to common stock and issue hundreds of millions of new shares.
— Reuters, CNN, 21 July 2023 -
And if a company lands in trouble and ends up being liquidated, bond holders will be paid before preferred stock shareholders, and holders of common stock are paid last — if anything is left.
— Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2022 -
The loan could also convert into preferred stock from the company’s most recent past funding round, or roll into its next equity financing of $2 million or more at 80% its price, per the document.
— Alex Konrad, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023 -
Dividends attached to the preferred stock weigh on Roadrunner’s earnings because they are treated as interest expense on the company’s balance sheet.
— Jennifer Smith, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2018 -
Unlike common stock, preferred stock has some stipulations that give the Board of Directors more power to make decisions without shareholder approval.
— Lucy Brewster, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2022
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