How to Use ordinary share in a Sentence

ordinary share

noun
  • Those voting rights were cut to three times those of ordinary shares when Neumann was ousted as chief executive last month.
    Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Instead, the opening public price of its ordinary shares on the NYSE will be determined by buy and sell orders collected on its listing day, the company said in the filing.
    Bloomberg, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Multiply the price range by the company’s share capital (200 billion ordinary shares), and the overall value of the company begins to emerge.
    Adrian Croft, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2019
  • In the case of Baidu, every 10 American depositary shares represent an interest in one of the internet company’s class A ordinary shares.
    Liza Lin, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2018
  • More boldly, Singapore might include a sunset clause, establishing a date at which shares with extra voting rights convert into ordinary shares.
    The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Private market investors—often venture-capital or private-equity firms—are usually able to buy preference shares that can be converted into ordinary shares when the IPO happens.
    Jacky Wong, WSJ, 11 May 2018

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