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Floating rate preferredPreferred stock paying dividends that vary with short-term interest rates.Floating rate preferred Similar MatchesBlank Check Preferred StockBlank Check Preferred StockThis is stock over which the board of directors has broad authority to determine voting, dividend, conversion, and other rights. While it can be used to enable a company to meet changing financial needs, its most important use is to implement poison pills or to prevent takeover by placement of this stock with friendly investors. Preferred habitat theoryPreferred habitat theoryA biased expectations theory that believes the term structure reflects the expectation of the future path of interest rates as well as risk premium. The theory rejects the assertion that the risk premium must rise uniformly with maturity, but instead profits that to the extent that the demand for and supply of funds do not match for a given maturity range, some participants will shift to maturities showing the opposite imbalances, as long as they are compensated by an appropriate risk premium whose magnitude will reflect the extent of aversion to either price or reinvestment risk. Auction Market Preferred Stock (AMPS)Auction Market Preferred Stock (AMPS)A type of Dutch Auction Preferred Stock (A Merrill Lynch product). First preferred stockFirst preferred stockA type of preferred stock that has priority over other preferred issues and common stock when claiming dividends and assets. Preferred stock agreementPreferred stock agreementA contract for preferred stock. Further SuggestionsMonthly income preferred security (MIP)adjustable rate preferred stock Adjustable rate preferred stock (ARPS) Auction rate preferred stock (ARPS) participating preferred stock Preferred stock preferred stock Participating preferred stock Convertible preferred stock Second preferred stock Prior preferred stock Depository preferred cumulative preferred stock Dutch Auction Preferred Stock Preferred stock ratio Preferred dividend coverage Cumulative preferred stock Preferred equity redemption stock (PERC) |
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