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Simon’s board declared a quarterly common stock dividend of $2.10 for the first quarter of 2025, an increase of 15 cents, or 7.7 percent year-over-year.
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David Moin, WWD, 5 Feb. 2025
Prince owns over 29 million shares of Cloudflare common stock, worth well over $3 billion.
—Stockstory Team, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
More than two-thirds of his share purchases went to equity the Glazers held, meaning Ratcliffe paid the family $1.18 billion last year, around double what the common stock of the team was worth.
—Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 15 Jan. 2025
By March 2022, Musk had acquired beneficial ownership of more than 9% of Twitter’s outstanding common stock.
—Bloomberg, Orange County Register, 15 Jan. 2025
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David Moin, WWD, 5 Feb. 2025
Prince owns over 29 million shares of Cloudflare common stock, worth well over $3 billion.
—Stockstory Team, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
More than two-thirds of his share purchases went to equity the Glazers held, meaning Ratcliffe paid the family $1.18 billion last year, around double what the common stock of the team was worth.
—Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 15 Jan. 2025
By March 2022, Musk had acquired beneficial ownership of more than 9% of Twitter’s outstanding common stock.
—Bloomberg, Orange County Register, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Common stock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/common%20stock. Accessed 15 Feb. 2025.
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