bonus shares , auch: bonus stock

Bonus shares are distributed in a fixed ratio to the shareholders.

Investors will also receive bonus shares for holding the shares more than a year.

Bonus units from a unit trust are similar to bonus shares.

Although shareholders continued to enjoy bonus shares, rights issues, and significant dividends, the share price plateaued.

An issue of bonus shares is referred to as a bonus issue.

The paid-up capital of the Bank has been increased several times in the past by the issue of bonus shares to shareholders.

Although they will not qualify for discounts or bonus shares, they will get a larger allocation.

While the issue of bonus shares increases the total number of shares issued and owned, it does not change the value of the company.

The company must notify the allotment of bonus shares to Companies House on Form SH01.

On February 25, in an effort to mitigate investor losses, Reliance Power decided to issue 3 bonus shares for every 5 shares held.

If you get bonus shares (new free shares) or shares in exchange for your existing shares, your shareholding may change.

Bonus shares issued by a company from its share capital account are treated the same as splits (above), they only change the number of shares in the holding.

However there are complicated rules to apply when bonus shares are offered in lieu of dividends, or when they're part-paid shares.

The LSETRI assumes that if a component company issues bonus shares or announces a rights issue it will increase the listed capital.

The effect of this is that equity shares, or rights to them, can be allotted as subscribers' shares, bonus shares or pursuant to an employees' share scheme without first offering pre-emptive rights.

The capital was one million francs, represented by 200 shares of 5000 francs plus eight bonus shares given to the author of the project, Louis-Antoine Beaunier, who became the director of the company.

An amount may only be transferred from the revaluation reserve: to the profit and loss account, if the amount was previously charged to that account or represents realised profit, or for the issue of bonus shares.

In its earlier flotations, such as those of British Telecom and Britoil P.L.C., the Government offered incentives ranging from discounts on phone bills to bonus shares in order to attract small investors.

Georgia-Pacific went one step farther for its chairman, T. Marshall Hahn, paying not only the taxes on the bonus shares but also the taxes on the taxes, the taxes on that and so forth.

The Government has sought to enhance the complex sale with an installment payment plan of nearly two years, the longest ever, and with bonus shares and discounts on electricity bills, the types of perquisites it has offered in the past.

I wouldn't blab any secrets like this if I wasn't sure that they had every last certificate of the stock, and they got it by trading some of their bonus shares in other companies which they didn't care about, particularly the match company.

Purchases of shares issued as a result of bonus shares and scrip dividends in respect of the original shares are, in general, also treated as distributions and are deemed to be purchased first (ICTA 1988, s211).

In a private meeting Manfred De La Rey had suggested to Shasa that if the company were to issue a further ten thousand bonus shares in the name of a nominee in Pretoria, the consequences might be very much to everybody's advantage.

Another difference between a bonus issue and a stock split is that while a stock split usually also splits the company's authorized share capital, the distribution of bonus shares only changes its issued share capital (or even only its outstanding shares).

And it pressed the 80 underwriting institutions, led by Goldman, Sachs & Company, Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank, to provide sweeteners to individuals, such as discounts for those who signed up early and bonus shares for those who hold shares for three years.