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COMMON STOCKS that appear to be financially sound on the surface, but which feature little substance when examined more closely.
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FIXED INCOME SECURITY
A share that gives fixed income regularly. It can be a bond, certificate of deposit, perferred stock or any other kind of investment. Common stock is not included becasue income varies. The
FORMULA BASIS
Instead of basing stock sales on a specific range by the SEC, it is using a price formula for selling common stock.
EARNINGS PER SHARE (EPS)
The amount of net income earned by a company, after PREFERRED STOCK DIVIDENDS have been distributed, which is attributable to each outstanding share of COMMON STOCK. The EPS measure is used as
ESTATE FREEZE
Assets are transferred from the owner to a beneficiary to not incur capital gains. An example is common stock transferred by the owner at a nominal value in exchange for preferred shares
DEBT INVESTMENT
Investing by buying bonds or debentures. Common stock or perferred stock is not bought.
DEBT-EQUITY SWAP
When a firm trades common stock thats new for bonds they already issued. Refer to debt for export swap.
EX-ALL
A share of COMMON STOCK that lacks DIVIDEND rights and voting rights and is only entitled to possible capital appreciation.
DEMUTUALIZATION
The process of converting a memberowned mutual organization into a public company through the flotation of COMMON STOCK. Once demutualization occurs, members/ customers are separate and distinct from owners/investors.
DIFFUSION PROCESS
A continuous, STOCHASTIC PROCESS where the market variable (e.g., a COMMON STOCK price or FOREIGN EXCHANGE rate) exists in continuous time and its probability density function is continuous; the variable changes on
EQUAL DOLLAR SWAP
Buying a different type of convertible securities, such as preferred stock, from the selling of common stock in the same company or a similar company in the same amounts.
EXCHANGEABLE SECURITY
Marketable, tradable vehicles, like bonds or shares one can swap, rather than sell and buy, for another common stock.
DILUTION
The act of reducing the proportion of ownership held by current investors through issuance of new shares of COMMON STOCK (or through the exercise of outstanding stock OPTIONS or the conversion of
DIRECT PUBLIC OFFERING (DPO)
A DIRECT PLACEMENT of COMMON STOCK that is offered by a company to investors, customers, and/or suppliers, without the use of an UNDERWRITER. Given the limited ability for companies to directly place
EX-DIVIDEND
(1) A share of COMMON STOCK without any rights to the current period DIVIDEND. (2) The time period between the announcement and payment of dividends.
DISENFRANCHISE
The process of removing voting rights from a class of COMMON STOCK so that investors in that class are only entitled to RENT RIGHTS. See also DISENFRANCHISING TRANSACTION.
DISENFRANCHISING TRANSACTION
A financial restructuring transaction, such as a DUAL CLASS RECAPITALIZATION, that removes voting rights from certain COMMON STOCK investors. DISINTERMEDIATION The process of removing financial institutions, including BANKS, INVESTMENT BANKS, and SECURITIES
EQUITIES
Items traded in securities market, like ordinary shares of common stock.
EQUITY CALL SWAP
An OVERTHECOUNTER SWAP involving the exchange of a floating INTEREST RATE for potential gains from the appreciation an EQUITY reference index (which may take the form of a single COMMON STOCK, a
EQUITY CAPITAL
Time-bound or share-bound assets or monies a person has invested, contrasted to debt capital. This equity is not returned to an investors in the normal course of business. The purchase, as an
