To issue shares to existing shareholders (rights issue or follow-on offering).

In a follow-on offering, the company itself places new shares onto the market, thus diluting the existing shares.

If a company were to make a third, primary-market offering, this would be a follow-on offering which is not a secondary market offering.

Yesterday, it announced that it was already going back to the market for a follow-on offering, selling another 1.5 million shares.

It also would eliminate the possibility of investing in any of the follow-on offerings or spinoffs that Ms. Stewart is almost certain to dream up.

A follow-on offering (often but incorrectly called secondary offering) is an issuance of stock subsequent to the company's initial public offering.

A follow-on offering can be either of two types (or a mixture of both): dilutive and non-dilutive.

In 1985 Franco-Nevada raised $930,000 to purchase gold royalties in a follow-on offering.

Once a company is listed, it is able to issue additional common shares in a number of different ways, one of which is the follow-on offering.

Still, Thomas Weisel has filed to do a follow-on offering.