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- From: keith@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Keith Hawkins)
- Subject: A stupid question I should know
- Reply-To: keith@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Keith Hawkins)
- Organization: Bell Communications Research (Bellcore)
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 19:55:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.195551.6466@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- Sender: netnews@porthos.cc.bellcore.com (USENET System Software)
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- Hello,
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- After reading time and time again about this or that company
- issuing 2 million more shares, it suddenly dawned on me
- that I don't understand how this process works !!
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- I understand a stock split, where each slice of the
- corporate pie is just being divided into smaller slices.
- But I don't know where new shares come from.
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- If a share is supposed to represent a peice of the corporation,
- how can "new" peices get created?? Where did these new peices
- come from?
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- Are these shares that already existed, but were held
- internally by the corporation??
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- If anyone can shed light on how this process works,
- it would be greatly appreciated.
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- Thanks,
- Keith
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