
A popular means of raising capital by offering shareholders the opportunity to buy additional shares of the same stock at a price below the current market value.
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Issuance to shareholders that allows them to purchase additional shares, usually at a discount to market price. Holdings of shareholders who do not exercise rights are usually diluted by the offering. Rights are often transferable, allowing the holder to sell them on the open market to others who may wish to exercise them. Rights offerings are part...
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Issuance of 'rights' to current shareholders allowing them to purchase additional shares, usually at a discount to market price. Shareholders who do not exercise these rights are usually diluted by the offering. Rights are often transferable, allowing the holder to sell them on the open market to others who may wish to exercise them. Rights offerin...
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Issuance to shareholders that allows them to purchase additional shares, usually at a discount to ma
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Offering of additional shares, usually at a discount, to existing shareholders who have rights to those shares. The shares can be actively traded.
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[
n] - an offering of common stock to existing shareholders who hold subscription rights or pre-emptive rights that entitle them to buy newly issued shares at a discount from the price at which they will be offered to the public later
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rights issue noun an offering of common stock to existing shareholders who hold subscription rights or pre-emptive rights that entitle them to buy newly issued shares at a discount from the price at which they will be offered to the public later; `t...
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