equity financing

equity financing definition - finance
Issuing stock in order to raise funds. Equity financing may be an initial public offering, which is the first equity that a company raises. All subsequent offerings of equity are called secondary, or follow-
on, offerings.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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