common stock

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The digital infrastructure company guided for weaker first-quarter revenue than Wall Street was expecting and said it would raise $900 million to fund data-center construction with a common stock offering priced at $19 a share.

From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026

Under terms of the agreement, Globalstar shareholders could either receive $90 in cash for each share of common stock they own or trade their shares in for a slice of Amazon stock.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026

Leggett & Platt shareholders will receive 0.1455 share of Somnigroup common stock per share, owning about 9% of the combined company.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

So far this year, he’s converted a total of 1.65 million shares into common stock at a weighted average price of $9.63, and sold 1.65 million shares at a weighted-average price of $92.07.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

To secure his natural rights the individual deposits some of them—e.g. the right to judge in his own cause—in the common stock of society.

From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Conway, Moncure Daniel