How to Use preferred stock in a Sentence

preferred stock

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This instrument can be adapted to better compete with the preferred stock financial instrument used by institutional VCs in the 21st century.
  — Dileep Rao, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024