preference shares
preferred stock

He also called into question the treatment of preference shares in the company accounts.

To pay estate duties, the public were offered some preference shares.

Preference shares may be issued up to one half of the registered capital.

The auditors also took issue with the accounting treatment of the preference shares.

Building societies use them in the way public limited companies use preference shares.

At the same time, the company issues 50 preference shares with a par value of $0.5.

It will mark the first time that a foreign company has offered dollar-denominated preference shares to the American public.

Preference shares form an intermediate class of security between equities and debt.

Preference shares are being redeemed at a total cost of about $295 million.

The subsidiary has non-cumulative preference shares in issue, all held by minorities.

Dividends on preference shares, many of which were held by Partners, were not paid.

The new venture was financed by the issue of 40,000 preference shares at £1 each.

Concurrent offering of 3.5 million preference shares in Colombia.

So there is no requirement to recognise a minority interest in respect of the preference shares.

From June 1988 (see next section), the company began to use redeemable preference shares to raise capital.

More common examples include convertible and converting preference shares.

The investment was worth £500,000 and was made in the form of preference shares.

Perpetual non-cumulative preference shares may be included as Tier 1 capital.

Some economists believe that the government should rescue troubled banks directly, by buying special issues of preference shares.

No final dividends are proposed on the new preference shares or the ordinary shares.

The recast plan involved the issuing of the following types of preference shares.

Should the parent undertaking's consolidated balance sheet show a minority interest in respect of the preference shares?

The remainder of the 26,667 preference shares and 233,334 ordinary shares were offered for sale.

The common feature of all these is equity participation (limited in the case of preference shares).

To prevent a hostile takeover by Standard Oil, preference shares were issued.

First Union must also pay dividends on the new preferred stock.

Under the new deal, it will buy convertible preferred stock.

The bank loans are also senior to the company's common and preferred stock.

The company has not paid dividends on its common and preferred stock for more than three years.

The price also includes the preferred stock of the subsidiary.

Preferred stocks were popular among new industrial issues at the turn of the century.

Despite the name, the securities were debt, not preferred stock.

Some people consider preferred stock to be more like debt than equity.

Preferred stock pays a dividend at a set interest rate.

Preferred stock may comprise up to half of total equity.

The preferred stock would be retired on thirty days notice.

In 1938, the company offered preferred stock to ordinary buyers.

The higher yield results from the sale of preferred stock in each fund.

Take out the preferred stocks from the calculation, and the picture is even worse.

For tax purposes, there are two flavors of preferred stocks.

Thus they were willing to continue holding the preferred stock with no dividend at all for the next 49 days.

In 2003, it began offering preferred stock to select investors.

A company may issue several classes of preferred stock.

He recently added some preferred stock that is convertible into seven million shares.

And preferred stocks that are already out there have fallen since the announcement.

She said the company recently converted these debt instruments into preferred stock.

The company said share results reflect payment of preferred stock dividends.

The structure of his preferred stock agreement also became an extremely tense issue.

The preferred stock issue has a dividend rate that is set by auction every seven weeks.

Q. Why did you decide to broaden the market for your preferred stock?