Sentences with phrase «preferred shareholder cash»

While common stockholders are afforded certain voting rights, economic participation in the event of a liquidity event or declaration of dividends is subordinate to creditor and preferred shareholder cash distributions.

Not exact matches

Einhorn, fund manager for Greenlight Capital, accused Apple of cash hoarding earlier last week and is encouraging shareholders to vote against Apple's proxy because he thinks proposition two will kill the option of Apple issuing preferred stock.

Now share buybacks aren't necessarily a bad thing, and in fact are Warren Buffett's preferred method for returning cash to shareholders — as opposed to dividends — because they give management more flexibility.

Buying back stock is, for example, Warren Buffett's preferred way of returning cash to shareholders (rather than paying a dividend).

On June 10 SoftBank increased its bid to $ 21.6 billion from $ 20.1 billion and raised the cash component of the deal for shareholders by $ 4.5 billion, trumping Dish's bid and gaining support from Sprint's second biggest shareholder Paulson & Co. which had previously said it preferred Dish's bid.

«Proportion of free cash flow (after preferred dividends) that is paid as dividends to common shareholders.

That is why I much prefer dealing with real, live, breathing businesses that give some of their profits to shareholders every ninety days in the form of a cash dividend.

First, the indemnity payments offered by the government may not be enough to avoid companies from generating zero to negative EBIDTA, to offset investment and asset impairments, and ultimately to generate enough cash for future investments and net income to continue paying dividends (which would be a severe blow particularly to preferred shareholders).

If a company fails to fulfill its obligations to its preferred shareholders, its common shareholders will have no prospect of earning cash flows on their investments, and therefore their shares — their pieces of paper — won't carry value.

The management has wisely bought back shares of the stock at severely depressed levels, and doesn't seem to get too carried away with regular buybacks, preferring to return excess cash to shareholders in the form of special dividends (much preferred to buybacks).

Naturally, shareholders would prefer to reinvest a business's earnings into more ownership of a business rather than see the cash sit in the company's bank accounts for a paltry.5 % annual return.

That is why I much prefer dealing with real, live, breathing businesses that give some of their profits to shareholders every ninety days in the form of a cash dividend.

In recent decades, share buybacks have overtaken dividends as a preferred way to return cash to shareholders as there is more preferential tax treatment.

The research shows that, in addition to undervaluation, activists seek cash - rich balance sheets, and over-diversified businesses, both of which are symptoms of the tension between managers who want larger fiefdoms, and shareholders who prefer that cash be distributed out to them when returns drop below a threshold.

This brings up some important questions on investing, namely whether we prefer management to allocate cash into share buybacks or into dividend payments to shareholders.

I hold accordingly... but for other individual shareholders, it will depend on their portfolio & perspective: On average, event - driven investments do offer attractive risk / reward, but if you're itching to buy a high potential growth stock right now (for example), you may prefer to raise some necessary cash.

I prefer cash myself... But Zamano's size may be a blessing: i) a cash deal, even at a decent premium, wouldn't break the bank, or ii) an all - share deal mightn't present much difficulty either — for ZMNO shareholders who prefer a cash exit, the impact of their selling might be quite limited in relation to an acquirer's market cap / trading volumes.

Time for a step - change... Overall, it's a pretty stable core business, so management needs to start milking it for cash to return to shareholders (via dividends / buy - backs), or else accelerate growth by ramping up its leverage & acquisition pipeline / spending (more acquisitions, bigger acquisitions, or both...)-- at this point, I'd still prefer a bet on the latter.

«After extensive consideration and in light of the uncertainty associated with the causes and potential liabilities associated with these wildfires as well as state policy uncertainties, the PG&E boards determined that suspending the common and preferred stock dividends is prudent with respect to cash conservation and is in the best long - term interests of the companies, our customers and our shareholders... We fully recognize the importance of dividends and intend to revisit the issue as we get more clarity.»

The thing is that as a shareholder, I prefer either to get some of the cash distributed back to me, may be via a special dividend or share - buybacks, or I prefer the cash to be spent on projects that might multiply in value.

Simon is also prepared to offer Simon common equity instead of the cash consideration, in whole or in part, as payment to those General Growth shareholders or creditors who would prefer to participate in the upside of owning stock in Simon.