How to Use tracking stock in a Sentence

tracking stock

noun

• How much will owners of Dell’s VMWare tracking stock get paid?
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 2 July 2018
• The data is training algorithms that read images to track stock on shelves.
  — Tom Simonite, WIRED, 25 Apr. 2018
• For those of you who don’t spend the summer tracking stock prices, the market has been climbing to new highs since bottoming out in late December.
  — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
• With a tracking stock, a company would sell shares of a business unit that merely tracked the performance of the division.
  — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 9 Mar. 2021
• Less than 18 months ago, his fund launched an ETF tracking stocks of companies expected to benefit from any increase in Brent crude oil prices.
  — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
• The tracking stock representing 53% ownership of VMWare could not keep pace with its soaring stock, at times trading at discounts of about 40%.
  — Antoine Gara, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2021
• MicroStrategy, in other words, is now more of a bitcoin tracking stock than a software stock.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 9 June 2021
• At Amazon Go, customers needn’t even pull out their wallets to pay, thanks to an app that tracks stock and charges their accounts automatically.
  — Jane Black, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2018
• Ticker tape was printed from stock tickers, a machine that was used to track stock information, and it was used as a source of scrap paper that people threw during the parades.
  — Allen Kim and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN, 21 Apr. 2020
• To retire the tracking stock, VMWare paid an $11 billion special dividend to its shareholders.
  — Antoine Gara, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2021
• Dell’s current plan to go public involves buying out that tracking stock for a mix of cash and shares in the resulting Dell entity, so enough opposition by holders of the tracking stock could stymie its efforts.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2018
• Futures contracts that track stocks in the United States traded erratically, suggesting that the markets on Friday could be in for another day of uncertainty.
  — Matt Phillips and Tiffany Hsu, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018

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