But it subsequently paid more than $140 million for an additional 47.6 percent stake.

The Tisch group paid $94.5 million for a 6.6 percent stake.

First Executive probably paid much more for its stake.

It paid a total of $1.2 billion for a 23 percent stake, which is now worth about $12 billion.

Compared to what I had paid for my stake, that was certainly a giveaway.

National declined to say what Fairchild management paid for its stake.

The newspaper's buyers, two 30-ish unknowns, paid perhaps $20 million for an 85 percent stake.

A year ago, the company paid $18 million for a 62.5 percent stake of the Denver Nuggets.

Tuvalu's government paid $3 million last fall for a 20 percent stake in the .

Rosewood paid an average of more than $11 a share for its stake in First Executive.