Rights Offering
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 Offering
An offering that gives each shareholder a chance to exercise his preemptive rights.
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Rights offering
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 Offering
Offering of common stock to existing shareholders who hold rights that entitles then to buy newly issued shares at a discount from the price at which shares will later be offered to the public.
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Rights Offering
The distribution to existing stockholders of rights to purchase shares that are part of a new common stock issue.
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Rights Offering - Securities offering by an issue r to its existing shareholders before offering the same securities to the general public.
rights offering: The issuing of rights to current shareholders to buy a proportionate number of additional securities at a discounted price within a certain time period.
risk: The likelihood that an investment will lose money.
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Take-up fee A fee paid to an underwriter in connection with an underwritten rights offering or an underwritten forced conversion.
Standby commitment An agreement between a corporation and investment firm that the firm will purchase whatever part of a stock issue that is offered in a rights offering that is not subscribed to in the two- to four- week standby period.
Standby fee Amount paid to an underwriter who agrees to purchase any stock that is not subscribed to the public investor in a rights offering. Standing Used in the context of general equities. Level of priority in the trading crowd.
Rule 10b-8: Distributions through rights prohibits market price manipulation by interested parties in a rights offering .
The literal translation is "with rights"--that is, during a rights offering, the period in which the purchaser of stock will receive the rights. The rights entitle the purchaser to buy a fixed amount of shares of stock that has not yet been issued.
That obligation is known as a subscription right, or a rights offering, and allows you to maintain the same percentage of ownership you had before the new issue.
An entity that agrees to purchase all the remaining, unsubscribed securities from a rights offering.
EX-RIGHTS " Without rights: During a rights offering, when the purchaser of stock does not receive rights. If stock is purchased on or after the ex-rights date (four business days prior to the record date), the purchaser does not receive rights.
Backstop Purchaser - An entity that agrees to purchase all the remaining, unsubscribed securities from a rights offering.
In connection with a rights offering, shares of stock that are trading without the rights attached.
Ex-rights date
The date on which a share of common stock begins trading ex-rights.
Price that current shareholders pay for a share of stock in a rights offering.
Subscription privilege
The right of current shareholders of a corporation to buy newly issued shares before they are available to the public.
Ex-Rights - Refers to a transaction which the new purchaser of a stock is not entitled to participate in the recently declared rights offering. The mechanics are similar to ex-dividend conditions.
Layoff stock: Stock that the syndicate acquires and then sells in a rights offering.
Lagging indicator: An economic indicator or signal that reacts slowly to economy changes. Unemployment figures are a lagging indicator.
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Standby fee
Amount paid to an underwriter who agrees to purchase any stock that is not subscribed to the public investor in a rights offering.
Before a company offers a new issue of securities to the public, it may offer existing shareholders the opportunity to buy shares of the issue at a discounted price. That's known as a subscription right, or a rights offering.
Rights are often transferrable, allowing the holder to sell them on the open market to others who may wish to exercise them. Rights offerings are particularly common to closed end funds, which cannot otherwise issue additional common stock.
Used in the context of general equities. In-line, emphasizing that this is a customer inquiry that is ready to be executed and not distant on price. See: Tight.
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Back to top Rights Offering (Issue) Issuing rights to a company's existing shareholders to buy a proportional number of additional securities at a given price (usually at a discount) within a fixed period.
rights offering Offering of common stock to investors who currently hold shares which entitle... ring A demarcated area on the exchange floor where traders and brokers execute trades.
 See also: Expense, Banks, Values, Tender Offer, Exercise price
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