rights offering

rights offering definition - finance
The sale of shares of stock to existing shareholders at a dis-counted price from what the general public will have to pay. Seen more frequently in the U.K. than in the U.S.

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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