Ma reaped more than $ 800 million
selling shares in the company he set up 15 years ago as Alibaba listed on the New York Stock Exchange Friday, based on company filings, with the value of his remaining stake of 7.8 percent surging to more than $ 17 billion by Monday.
To get money back to the investors they have to be able to
sell their shares in your company, either because you've sold shares on the public stock markets (called going public, or initial public offering) or because you've been acquired by another company.
It's money they get from
selling shares in the company, shares granted to them as part of an effort to align their interests with the interests of shareholders.
When you sell equity you are
selling shares in your company and your investors become partners.
I sold shares in companies that had run up significantly from my purchases price.
Those plans were blocked by controlling shareholder Martha Billes and Ackman eventually gave up and
sold his shares in the company.
In order to send a message to fossil fuel companies that oil and coal reserves are best left in the ground, the movement encourages investors to
sell their shares in these companies.
Singh
sold his shares in the companies to outside investors, but his wife Ruby retains controlling ownership.
Anyone who wants to buy or
sell shares in a company will «announce» it on the stock market.
Katherine Graham (Meryl Streep), publisher of The Washington Post, is going over a list of financial and legal documents once again, rehearsing her answers to the questions she will be getting from bankers about
selling shares in the company to the public for the first time.
If you want to
sell your shares in a company like GE, there's no uncertainty or waiting.
If
I sold my share in the company right now, and the 2015 return was filed as late somewhere down the line - would I be liable for the penalty?
Generally we would obtain Stocks via a Stock Broker or institution where we can then purchase or
sell shares in a company.
For example, a common provision in the LLC operating agreement is how individuals can
sell their shares in the company.
The founding shareholders in hotel.de AG have
sold their shares in the company, totalling 61.6 per cent, to HRS Hotel Reservation Service, Cologne.
Power Practical had already successfully built a business around the first PowerPot, but decided to go back again instead of
selling shares in the company, as others do.
The investors had been
sold shares in companies and sent their money to North America where the companies were based.
There are strict rules for start ups
selling shares in the company to investors, even if those investors are friends, family members or close business associates.
-- Reuters picNEW YORK, April 5 — Fewer Spotify Technology SA holders
sold shares in the company's direct listing Tuesday than expected by advisers, potentially contributing to an initial shortage that drove the price up, people familiar with the matter said.
Poundland founder Steve Smith, who
sold his share in the company in 2002, is to take the idea online, by launching a new website Poundshop.com.
Not exact matches
For example, Uber
sold new
shares to SoftBank Group
in January
in a deal that valued the ride hailing startup at $ 48 billion, significantly higher than the nearly $ 4 billion valuation at which Google had bought its stake
in the
company five years ago.
An initial public offering — or IPO as it's most commonly called — is the way for
companies to go from private to public and
sell stock
shares in their firm.
That section laid out that a change
in accounting rules now required Alphabet to include the change
in value of any
shares it owned
in private
companies, such as Uber,
in its profits even if just held onto to its stake and didn't buy or
sell any more
shares.
Tencent president Martin Lau
sold 1 million of his
shares in the
company, reducing his stake to 0.48 percent from 0.49 percent.
As for Baskin, the firm
sold all of its
shares in Home Capital
in late April, and Schwartz, the chief investment officer, said it will no longer comment on the
company.
Spotify's direct listing differed from a standard initial public offering
in that the
company only
sold existing
shares instead of issuing new ones and had minimal contact with investment banks, which typically underwrite IPOs.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday suspended trading
in the stock of a small business called The Crypto
Company, citing concerns about the «accuracy and adequacy» of information it provided about marketing costs and insiders» plans to
sell shares.
Cash Converters International managing director Peter Cumins has today
sold $ 2.57 million worth of
shares in the
company he and his brother Brian Cumins helped build.
Automotive Holdings Group managing director Bronte Howson has
sold two million
shares in the
company, raising a total of $ 7.76 million.
The San Francisco software
company, which raised $ 250 million
in VC funding, is seeking to
sell 13 million
shares priced between $ 12 and $ 14 per
share.
Mobli was also famous for being one of the first startups to use NASDAQ's private market, allowing early employees to cash out their
shares in the
company by
selling them to other private investors.
He has applied for permanent residency
in the U.K., and said
in July that he intends to invest most of what he made
selling his
share of oil
company TNK - BP
in U.S. healthcare — well beyond the caprice and covetousness of any Russian leader or policeman.
In a discussion called «
Selling Your Business: The Keys to a Successful Exit,» veteran businesswomen Kathryn From and Marnie Walker will provide some answers by
sharing their experiences exiting the
companies they worked so hard to build.
Shares of MuleSoft, were briefly halted on Tuesday after Reuters reported that the
company was
in advanced talks to
sell itself to Salesforce.
-- BlackBerry
shares were up
in pre-market trading after Canada's flagship technology
company said its board has launched a formal review of its «strategic alternatives» — including the possibility of
selling the smartphone
company.
Power Financial
sold its
shares of Montreal Trust to Bell Canada parent BCE Inc. for $ 547 million
in 1989 because of reservations about the ability of a mid-sized
company to compete with Canada's large chartered banks.
Pershing Square also dropped a few investments
in the second quarter,
selling off nearly 11.7 million
shares of spirits
company Beam, which
sold to Japan's Suntory earlier this year, as well as roughly 3.7 million
shares of apartment building operator Apartment Investment & Management.
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management has been appointed by the corporate watchdog to
sell a portion of
shares in Sovereign Gold
Company held by former Applabs Technologies directors which were found to have been acquired invalidly.
That willingness to
sell his
shares back to the
company at a premium, a practice known as «greenmail,» led to accusations he was not interested
in improving or running the
companies he challenged.
The entrepreneurial dream of
selling a startup for megabucks came true for the founders of photo -
sharing app Instagram when Facebook agreed to buy the
company for $ 1 billion
in cash and stock.
Shares in Minbos Resources surged on news it has entered into an agreement to
sell half of the
company to joint venture partner, Petril Projects,
in exchange for full ownership of the Cabinda phosphate project
in Angola.
Shares in Perth - based construction and development
company Diploma Group have surged on news it will
sell its Quest Serviced Apartments
in Rockingham and Adelaide Terrace to undisclosed buyers for a combined value of $ 63.5 million.
In September, the
company's stock reached a 100 % increase over last year, as Tsai and Ma discussed
selling up to 22.5 million (or US$ 4 billion worth) of the
company's
shares.
The kingdom is due to list
shares in Saudi Aramco
in both Riyadh and at least one other foreign stock exchange by 2018,
selling up to 5 % of what will likely become the world's biggest
company by market capitalisation.
That increases the
shares outstanding and dilutes the stake of existing shareholders, since
shares issued by the
company through the exercise of options are not
sold in exchange for cash at fair market value but are exercised at a discount.
With sales of recorded music withering, the hot idea among record labels was to sign artists to so - called 360 deals, where a
company didn't just release a band's recordings, but promoted the concerts,
sold the merchandise, and
shared in profits from websites, fan clubs and film deals.
The
company, founded
in 2009, did not disclose how many
shares it would
sell.
Three senior executives including the
company's chief financial officer
sold $ 1.8 million
in shares three days after the
company learned on July 29 hackers had breached personal data for up to 143 million Americans.
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.
You may have decided to
sell to Aunt Mabel for $ 5 a
share just because you like her, but
in doing so, you've changed the formal value of the
company.