Sentences with phrase «privately traded shares»

SoftBank's aggressive approach raised many tensions at Uber and among some of the company's smaller investors who believe that the Japanese tech giant will devalue the firm seeing how it's seeking to purchase its privately traded shares at a significant discount.

Kevin Kinsella, president of a venture capital firm, notes that investors have been making 30 % per quarter on privately traded shares, like Uber.

Not exact matches

Facebook shares have long been actively traded on SecondMarket, a New York financial services company that allows early stage investors and employees to sell their shares in privately held start - ups.

While, prior to this offering, our shares have not been listed on any stock exchange or other public trading market, there has been some trading of our securities, for instance, in private trades or trades on alternative online markets, such as SecondMarket and SharesPost, that exist for privately traded securities.

These legal tests involve, for example, whether the owners are Canadian and whether the firm's shares are privately - held or publicly - traded.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

Nasdaq's Linq platform now enables many of the functions of public markets (shareholder services, share registries, even secondary trading) for privately held companies.

A privately owned, for - profit corporation can be either privately held by a small group of individuals, or publicly held, with publicly traded shares listed on a stock exchange.

Over a long period of time, the shares of two companies in identical businesses, one publicly traded, and one privately held, could deliver the same value over a long period of time.

Yeah, going back to that about $ 1.75 cash you have on the balance sheet with the stock trade $ 0.80, and we're willing to buy back stock at $ 1.53, why will you not contemplate, and you have a 4 million share repurchase authorized, why won't you engage in privately negotiated transactions, or a Dutch auction tender offer?

Because the SMI Funds will invest in other ETFs, mutual funds and privately - traded partnerships, each Fund will bear its share of the fees and expenses of these underlying investments, in addition to the fees and expenses payable directly to the Fund.

The direct listing could result in wild swings in Spotify's stock pricing during the first few days of trading, especially since Spotify's shares sold in a range of $ 48.93 to $ 132.50 in privately negotiated transactions during the first 11 weeks of this year.

Established in 1969, ARDA today has nearly 1,000 corporate members ranging from privately held firms to publicly traded companies and international corporations with expertise in shared ownership interests in leisure real estate.