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* Stock option compensation is a real expense. Excluding stock options distorts reported earnings and misleads the public about true financial performance of companies. Excluding stock options ... invites excessive executive compensation, to the detriment of shareholders, and employees.
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Stock traders weren't blown away by Steve Jobs's Macworld announcements, sending Apple shares down 5 percent. Rivals faired even worse.... From the numbers, they expect Apple's movie-rental service with support from all of the major studios to pummel brick-and-mortar competitor Blockbuster, and to a lesser extent Netflix. Blockbuster is trading down more than 15 percent in after hours while Netflix is down 3 percent.
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Preferred Stock Preferred stock gets its name from the preferences granted to its owners. These include a preference as to payment of dividends, and may include a preference in the distribution of assets (after creditors are paid) if the corporation is liquidated. However, preference as to dividends does not guarantee the payment of dividends. Rather, [I]f dividends are declared, the preferred stockholders have the right to receive their preferred dividend before the common stockholders are paid any dividends. On the other hand, preferred stock normally carries no voting rights. Issuing preferred stock enables a corporation to raise additional capital without jeopardizing the controlling interests of the common stockholders.
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NEW YORK, Feb 25, 2008 (PrimeNewswire via COMTEX News Network) -- The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. ("NASDAQ") (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced the composition of the Board of Directors for The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., effective March 1, 2008. As previously announced, the new Board nominees were selected from the NASDAQ, OMX and Borse Dubai organizations.
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NEW YORK, Jan 23, 2008 (PrimeNewswire via COMTEX News Network) -- The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced the appointment of Jameel Aalim-Johnson as Associate Vice President of NASDAQ Government Relations. In this position, Mr. Johnson will represent the views and policies of NASDAQ to federal, state, and local policymakers.
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Values of Stock In addition to the par value mentioned earlier, stocks have [B]ook value and may have a market value. While par value is an arbitrary value set by the company at the time of issuance, a better approximation of the value of a share of stock is its book value. A share’s book value is the total net assets of the company divided by the number of shares outstanding. For example, suppose a company with 1,000 shares of stock outstanding has total assets worth $10,000 and total liabilities of $4,000. Its net assets would then be $6,000. The book value of each of the 1,000 shares of stock therefore would be $6.
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