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Rights offeringSee 'rights issue'.Rights offeringIssuance to shareholders that allows them to purchase additional shares, usually at a discount to market price. Holdings of shareholders who do not exercise rights are usually diluted by the offering. Rights are often transferable, allowing the holder to sell them on the open market to others who may wish to exercise them. Rights offerings are particularly common to closed-end funds, which cannot otherwise issue additional common stock.Rights OfferingA popular means of raising capital by offering shareholders the opportunity to buy additional shares of the same stock at a price below the current market value.Rights Offering Similar MatchesBlank check offeringBlank check offeringAn initial public offering by a company whose business activities are undefined and therefore peculative. Reoffering yieldReoffering yieldIn a purchase and sale, the yield to maturity at which an underwriter offers to sell bonds to investors. Public offering pricePublic offering priceThe price of a new issue of issue at the time that the issue is offered to the public. Shelf offeringShelf offeringOffering of registered securities covered by a prospectus whose distribution is not underwritten on a firm commitment basis. The shares may be sold in one block or in small amounts from time to time in agency or principal transactions. See: Rule 415. Competitive offeringCompetitive offeringAn offering of securities through competitive bidding. Further SuggestionsSplit offeringIntrastate offering Public securities offering electronic public offering Registered secondary offering Public offering Offering date public offering Offering scale Secondary Offering initial public offering Offering memorandum Dual syndicate equity offering Targeted registered offerings Offerings Offering statement Underwritten offering Secondary distribution or offering |
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