secondary offering

secondary offering definition - finance
The sale of additional shares of stock to the public after a companyÂ’s initial public offering. All successive offerings are termed secondary. Also called follow-on offering.

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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