preferred stock
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A key moment arrived in November 2007, when Freddie Mac slashed its dividend and sold $6 billion of preferred stock in a desperate bid to bolster its regulatory capital amid mounting mortgage losses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Shares of Strategy and its biggest dividend-paying preferred stock, Stretch, have reversed some losses since the plan was announced.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
The company said it used the money raised to fund payment of distributions on preferred stock, and to replenish the money used from its U.S. dollar reserves for the distributions.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
On June 26, when Strategy said the mNAV was just under 0.99, it would have been 0.89 using the market value for its debt and preferred stock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Treasury didn’t ask for a piece of the action, or management changes, or for that matter anything at all except for a teaspoon of out-of-the-money warrants and preferred stock.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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