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21Piggy-back (law) — Piggy back applies to contractual agreements in law, more specifically shareholder selling rights. To apply, the piggy back clause MUST be included in the corporation s shareholder agreement, which is part of the incorporation materials. If one… …
22claw back — UK US claw (sth) back Phrasal Verb with claw({{}}/klɔː/ verb ► STOCK MARKET if a share price claws back, or claws back a particular amount, it slowly increases after it has gone down: »The firm clawed back 15p of Monday s 60p decline to reach… …
23claw sth back — UK US claw (sth) back Phrasal Verb with claw({{}}/klɔː/ verb ► STOCK MARKET if a share price claws back, or claws back a particular amount, it slowly increases after it has gone down: »The firm clawed back 15p of Monday s 60p decline to reach… …
24buyback — buy|back [ baı,bæk ] noun count BUSINESS an arrangement in which someone agrees to buy back SHARES or property that they previously sold to someone: a buyback program that removed 640,000 guns from private ownership …
25Share repurchase — In some countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom, corporations can buy back their own stock in a share repurchase, also known as a stock repurchase or share buyback. There has been a meteoric rise in the use of share… …
26Treasury stock — A treasury stock or reacquired stock is stock which is bought back by the issuing company, reducing the amount of outstanding stock on the open market ( open market including insiders holdings). Stock repurchases are often used as a tax efficient …
27bear squeeze — ˈbear squeeze noun [countable] FINANCE when share prices rise because it is known that people have sold these shares without actually owning them, hoping to be able to obtain them more cheaply later, before they have to deliver them to the buyer …
28Buyback — The repurchase of outstanding shares (repurchase) by a company in order to reduce the number of shares on the market. Companies will buy back shares either to increase the value of shares still available (reducing supply), or to eliminate any… …
29self-tender — A tender offer in which a company approaches its shareholders in order to buy back some or all of its shares. There are two circumstances in which this operation can be of use. One is in the case of a hostile bid: the directors may wish to buy… …
30Return on equity — (ROE) measures the rate of return on the ownership interest (shareholders equity) of the common stock owners. It measures a firm s efficiency at generating profits from every unit of shareholders equity (also known as net assets or assets minus… …
