Generally preferred shares have more
security than common stock when it comes to payment of dividends and return of original capital.
Not exact matches
This discussion also does not consider any specific facts or circumstances that may be relevant to holders subject to special rules under the U.S. federal income tax laws, including, without limitation, certain former citizens or long - term residents of the United States, partnerships or other pass - through entities, real estate investment trusts, regulated investment companies, «controlled foreign corporations,» «passive foreign investment companies,» corporations that accumulate earnings to avoid U.S. federal income tax, banks, financial institutions, investment funds, insurance companies, brokers, dealers or traders in
securities, commodities or currencies, tax - exempt organizations, tax - qualified retirement plans, persons subject to the alternative minimum tax, persons that own, or have owned, actually or constructively, more
than 5 % of our
common stock and persons holding our
common stock as part of a hedging or conversion transaction or straddle, or a constructive sale, or other risk reduction strategy.
Section 16 (a) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 requires directors and certain officers of FedEx and persons who own more
than ten percent of FedEx's
common stock to file with the
Securities and Exchange Commission («SEC») initial reports of beneficial ownership (Form 3) and reports of subsequent changes in their beneficial ownership (Form 4 or Form 5) of FedEx's
common stock.
We have entered into a sixth amended and restated stockholders» agreement, dated as of April 20, 2010, with holders of our preferred
stock and certain holders of our
common stock, including some of our directors, executive officers and holders of more
than five percent of our voting
securities and their affiliates, pursuant to which the holders of preferred
stock have a right of purchase and co-sale in respect of sales of
securities by our founders and
common stockholders party to the agreement.
Preferreds are hybrid
securities that behave more like bonds
than common stocks.
They also can offer greater
security than most
common stocks since an issuer of a bond will do everything possible to meet its bond obligations.
The Large Cap Fund normally invests at least 80 % of its net assets in equity
securities, consisting of domestic
common and preferred
stocks of large capitalization («large - cap») companies — a company, at time of purchase by the Fund, with a market capitalization greater
than or equal to the lesser of $ 10 billion or the median market capitalization of companies in the S&P 500 Index.
Fixed income
securities or bonds have different valuation characteristics
than do
common stock securities, and bonds require different valuation methods.
You need to understand the understand the compound interest math, and also how to interpret complex
securities that come in far more flavors
than common stocks.
However, very little is really voiced by G&D as to how secondary situations and workout situations ought to be analyzed, compared with their views on how to analyze the
securities of primary companies, other
than to state that secondary
common stocks should not be acquired except at prices of two - thirds or less of underlying value.
Wintergreen Fund invests worldwide in
securities of companies that are trading at less
than estimates of their full value, including distressed
securities that are expected by Fund management to be exchanged for new debt or
common and preferred
stock.
While convertible
securities tend to provide higher yields
than common stocks, the higher yield may not protect against the risk of loss or mitigate any loss associated with a convertible
security's price decline.
The pricing and trading of bonds and fixed income
securities is far more convoluted
than for
common stocks or equities.
Bonds and other debt obligations, fixed - rate capital
securities and preferred
stock that are considered senior to
common stock within an entity's capitalization structure and therefore have a higher priority to repayment
than another bond's claim to the same class of assets.
Historically,
common stocks have provided greater long - term returns and have entailed greater short - term risks
than preferred
stocks, fixed - income
securities and money market investments.