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[28] [29] IMS Health shareholders received 0.384 shares of Quintiles common stock for each share of IMS Health common stock they held, leaving the split of ownership at 51.4% IMS and 48.6% Quintiles. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] The merger was completed in October and the resulting company was a $17.6 billion company called QuintilesIMS. [ 9 ]
IMS stood for Intercontinental Medical Statistics. It was the largest vendor of U.S. physician prescribing data. [2] [3] [4] IMS Health was founded in 1954 by Bill Frohlich and David Dubow with Arthur Sackler having a hidden ownership stake. [5] In 2010, IMS Health was taken private by TPG Capital, CPP Investment Board and Leonard Green ...
Dividend stripping is the practice of buying shares a short period before a dividend is declared, called cum-dividend, and then selling them when they go ex-dividend, when the previous owner is entitled to the dividend. On the day the company trades ex-dividend, theoretically the share price drops by the amount of the dividend.
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Quintiles Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering Stock Expected to Begin Trading on NYSE May 9th RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Quintiles today announced the pricing of its ...
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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.
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