outstanding
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Hastings now has direct or indirect ownership of 21,163,516 Netflix common shares, or about 0.5% of the shares outstanding.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026
Meanwhile, the subset of the private-credit funds known as BDCs were already reporting that they were accepting more deferred interest payments on outstanding loans.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
This is despite there also being an outstanding complaint against her.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
The difference in price targets between the two is worth about $1.8 trillion in market value, based on 4.5 billion fully diluted shares outstanding.
From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026
When that pool’s numbers grew too small to warrant maintaining a section, the laboratory simply distributed the stragglers into other sections and passed their outstanding assignments along to West Computing.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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