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Showing posts with label stockholders and their capital. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stockholders and their capital. Show all posts
Monday 10 August 2009

** Insiders Can Alter Market Value as Their Needs Dictate

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The value of the stockholdings of insiders is measured by what they can do with the business if and when they want to do it. If they need a ...

Controlling Stockholders and the Outside Stockholders

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There are some important differences of status and possible conflicts of interest between the controlling stockholders and the outside stoc...

Poor Management a Double Liability in Unprofitable Business

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It is a true remark that the determining factor in keeping an unprofitable business running is often the natural desire of the management t...

The Question of Continuing the Enterprise

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If a publicly owned business is consistently unsuccessful, should the stockholders move to dispose of it? Does the answer depend mainly on ...

The Holding-company Device

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Disadvantageous Corporate Structure: The Holding-company Device In the 1920s, there were many holding companies. These were enterprises or...
Saturday 8 August 2009

Changes in Capital Structure

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The preference for an all-common stock capitalization could in many cases prove disadvantageous for the owners of the business. Not only...

Prorata Distributions of Capital the Fairest Arrangement

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The basic questions are: whether any substantial amount of capital is redundant, and, whether the stockholders would benefit if such capital...

Repurchases of Shares by Companies

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Convincing evidence that many companies do in fact accumulate more capital than they need is seen in the prevalence of repurchases of stock ...

Returning Unneeded Capital to Stockholders

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These 2 examples illustrated http://myinvestingnotes.blogspot.com/2009/08/examples-of-companies-with-large.html how the problem of excessive...

Examples of Companies with Large Working Capital

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Northern Pipe Line Company In 1926, this company had: Total Equity: capital and surplus of $4,235,000, represented by Current Asset: $3,489,...

The Paradox of Large Working Capital in Mediocre Companies

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1. A prosperous company would appear more likely to accumulate excessive capital than a nonprosperous one. 2. Strangely enough, this is not ...