'equity dilution' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is generally used to refer to a decrease in shareholder's ownership of a company due to the additional issuance of shares. For example: "The company had to issue new shares to raise capital, resulting in a significant equity dilution for shareholders."
Such clauses protect against equity dilution if subsequent rounds of financing at lower values take place.
Negotiate about all elements of interest to you, not just the investment level and equity dilution.
If so, brand extensions could pose the considerable risk of brand equity dilution, and managers would have to develop much more cautious brand extension strategies.
Because of its fundamental importance to product marketing, a great deal of academic research has been directed at understanding brand equity dilution.
But Abraham said today that former chief executive Andy Duncan and ex-chairman Luke Johnson were right to reject a tie-up at that time as some form of equity dilution would have been involved.
Ideas floated in the 80s included variants on a social dividend, whereby publicly listed companies would be required to issue a percentage of new shares each year (a process known as equity dilution) to be lodged in a citizen's trust that would provide all citizens with a growing dividend on the profits of the whole economy, thus converting monopoly capital into equitable income.
And with equity and dilution becoming top concerns for sought-after talent, companies benefit if they can show employees their path to riches.
"If this had been a VC deal, my stake in the company would be down to less than 10% by now, for every subsequent round of raising equity means dilution," he says.
This is one of George Soros' walking zombies, but BAC is almost finished raising over $30 billion in equity with dilution to shareholders approximating 30%, a manageable number if losses and delinquencies peak by year-end.
Another thing you might want to consider doing prior to running ISS modeling is checking your equity usage and dilution to evaluate how your company is using equity compared to its peers.
(Raising equity brings nasty dilution--as shareholders in those investment banks will tell you--so really try to avoid going that route). Having a cash cushion is about ensuring short-term survival; being "bankable" enough to secure and maintain a credit line is about long-term sustainability.
