But in a period of surplus,
only common stockholders are entitled to increased dividends.
Not exact matches
With stock options, our executives can realize value
only to the extent that the market price of our
common stock increases during the period that the option is outstanding, which provides a strong incentive to our executives to increase
stockholder value.
The Board determined to adopt a «net long» definition of ownership because it believes that
only stockholders with full and continuing economic interest and voting rights in our
common stock should be entitled to request that the Company call a special meeting.
Stockholders sharing an address whose shares of
common stock are held by such entities, who now receive multiple copies of our proxy materials and who wish to receive
only one copy of these materials per household, should contact their brokerage firm, bank, or other similar entity to request that
only one set of these materials be delivered in the future.
Furthermore, investors purchasing shares of our Class A
common stock in this offering will
only own approximately % of our outstanding shares of Class A and Class B
common stock (and have % of the combined voting power of the outstanding shares of our Class A and Class B
common stock), after the offering even though their aggregate investment will represent % of the total consideration received by us in connection with all initial sales of shares of our capital stock outstanding as of September 30, 2010, after giving effect to the issuance of shares of our Class A
common stock in this offering and shares of our Class A
common stock to be sold by certain selling
stockholders.
Holders of certificates representing pre-split shares of the Fund's
common stock will receive, upon surrender of their certificates representing such pre-split shares, uncertificated post-split shares of the Fund's
common stock (i.e., a
stockholder's holdings of post-split shares will be reflected
only in the Fund's record books).
Stockholders sharing an address whose shares of our
common stock are held by such an entity should contact such entity if they now receive (1) multiple copies of our proxy materials or notices and wish to receive
only one copy of these materials per household in the future, or (2) a single copy of our proxy materials or notice and wish to receive separate copies of these materials in the future.
This is because EPS
only measures the income available to
common stockholders.
In the event of a company's liquidation,
common stockholders have lowest priority and receive assets
only after bondholders, preferred
stockholders, and other debt holders have been paid in full.
Nonetheless, the
only situation of which I am aware where one might expect management to work exclusively in the interests of
stockholders to the exclusion of other constituencies, is the one where the CEO and his family own all the outstanding
common stock.
Further research by Tweedy, Browne has indicated that companies satisfying the net current asset criterion have not
only enjoyed superior
common stock performance over time but also often have been priced at significant discounts to «real world» estimates of the specific value that
stockholders would probably receive in an actual sale or liquidation of the entire corporation.
The holder of the preferred share gets
only the $ 10 dividend, but the
common stockholder will receive the higher dividend.
If the company liquidates, however,
common stockholders receive assets
only after bondholders, preferred
stockholders, and other debt holders have been paid in full.