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Fern Michaels is the pen name of Mary Ruth Kuczkir, who was born in Hastings, Pennsylvania on April 9, 1933. [1] Michaels married, moved to New Jersey, and had five children. When the youngest entered school in 1973, her husband told her to get a job. Since she was unsure of how to get a job, Michaels decided to try writing a book.
A split share corporation is a corporation that exists for a defined period of time to transform the risk and investment return (capital gains, dividends, and possibly also profits from the writing of covered options) of a basket of shares of conventional dividend-paying corporations into the risk and return of the two or more classes of publicly traded shares in the split share corporation.
The main effect of stock splits is an increase in the liquidity of a stock: [3] there are more buyers and sellers for 10 shares at $10 than 1 share at $100. Some companies avoid a stock split to obtain the opposite strategy: by refusing to split the stock and keeping the price high, they reduce trading volume.
In a reverse stock split, a company reduces the number of shares outstanding, boosting the share price. For example, with a 1:3 stock split, the number of shares is divided by three while the ...
The company is also sitting on a hoard of more than $271 billion in cash that it can use to buy stocks to add to its $300 billion-plus stock portfolio or repurchase its own stock. Berkshire has a ...
In the United States, Series A preferred stock is the first round of stock offered during the seed or early stage round by a portfolio company to the venture capital investor. Series A preferred stock is often convertible into common stock in certain cases such as an initial public offering (IPO) or the sale of the company.
ASML's last stock split occurred in 2007, which was technically a reverse split. The last traditional split happened in 2000, a 3-for-1 split. The last traditional split happened in 2000, a 3-for ...
In a class A share, the sales load is up front, typically at most 5.75% of the amount invested. In contrast is the class B share that does not have an upfront charge, but instead has higher ongoing expenses in the form of a higher 12B-1 fee , and a contingent deferred sales charge that only applies if the investor redeems shares before a ...