Stocks & securities

Stocks & securities

Stocks trades, exchanges and tools etc.

Industry: Financial services; Investment

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Red herring

Financial services; Stocks & securities

A prospectus put together by an underwriter when a company decides to issue stock, containing information about the company but excluding the offer price and effective date. This needs to be filed ...

Dog and pony show

Financial services; Stocks & securities

Marketing campaign by issuers of stock hoping to court major investors before the effective date.

Effective date

Financial services; Stocks & securities

The date when shares become available to be sold to the public. Term is usually used in the case of IPOs.

Lock-up period

Financial services; Stocks & securities

A period of time following an IPO during which company insiders and major stockholders are restricted from selling their stock. The period is between 3 months and 2 years, and is an agreement between ...

IPO lock-up

Financial services; Stocks & securities

Flipping

Financial services; Stocks & securities

Reselling hot IPO stock a few days after the IPO to cash in on initial price increases. Can result in being blacklisted by investment banking firms.

Spinoff

Financial services; Stocks & securities

A form of divestiture whereby a company issues stocks in an existing department, making it a separate, subsidiary company. This is undertaken when a company wishes to streamline its operations, and ...