Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY - Ownership interest of common and preferred stockholders in a company. It is also...
  
  
• SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS - A measure of the shareholders' total interest in the company represented by the t...
  
  
• SHAREHOLDERS' LETTER - A section of an annual report where one can find general overall discussion by m...
  
  
• SHARES - Enter here the number of shares you own. If you bought shares of a specific security at differ...
  
  
• SHARES AUTHORIZED - The maximum number of shares of stock of a company allowed in the articles of incor...
  
  
• SHARES OUTSTANDING - The number of shares of common stock currently outstanding, less the shares held i...
  
  
• SHARK REPELLANT - Often used in risk arbitrage. Examples are golden parachutes, poison pills, safe harb...
  
  
• SHARK REPELLENT - Defenses employed by a company to ward off potential takeover bidders – the “sharks.”
  
  
• SHARK REPELLENTS - Legal anti-takeover mechanisms devised by management to deter potential takeovers.
  
  
• SHARK WATCHER - Often used in risk arbitrage. Firm specializing in the early detection of takeover acti...