Not exact matches
Options can be add value to one's portfolio
in a variety of ways, specifically, maintaining liquidity
via maintaining
cash to engage
in covered put options, initiating positions
via being assigned
shares strategically prior to or upon expiration of the option contract and capturing premium income
via closing out the contract prior to expiration as the
shares move
in your favor to realize income.
Several thousand of the books are
in the new agreement and while Google will scan the books, La Martiniere will garner
cash via the revenue
share model.
It seems these companies are able to return
cash to shareholders (
via dividend raises) on average
in the 8 - 12 % range without
share buybacks and
in 11 - 15 % range with (total shareholder yield) outside of any additional increase
in the actual price per
share.
It offers shareholders to either (1) take $ 3.00 per
share in cash or (2) $ 2.62
in cash (
via a special dividend) and an equity stub, thus giving shareholders the ability to participate
in future upside.
Except for the exercise of stock options,
in each case the increases
in net worth were attributable to increases
in retained earnings, i.e., net income minus
cash distributed to shareholders
via dividends and
share repurchases.
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.
The proposed deal would be structured
via a merger of 888 and Rank Group to create a new company, BidCo, which would then acquire William Hill for
cash and
shares in BidCo.