Sentence examples for shares amount from inspiring English sources

The shares amount to a 14percentt ownership stake in Continental but hold a majority of the voting rights.

But securities firms argue that the fees, along with the somewhat larger fees that the S.E.C. charges companies to register their shares, amount to a hidden tax on investors.

Latin America's share of worldwide computer shares amount to no more than about 5% of total sales, according to the International Data Corporation.

The total of unclaimed shares amounts to almost 4% of the share register for the insurer.

The shares amounted to a 66percentt stake in Telsim for Motorola and 7percentt for Nokia.

Trebling the difference between $30.76 and $16.88 on 29 million shares amounts to about $1.2 billion.

Anacomp's shareholders received new Class B shares amounting to a 0.1percentt stake, subject to dilution by management stock options.

By the end of November, Slim had accumulated twenty-five million shamountinguntong to seventeen per cent of the company.

The top two sellers in the most recent period were Gregg Felton, a senior executive in the firm's asset management division, who sold shares amounting to almost $8 million, and Philippe Altuzarra, a banker, who sold shares amounting to about $6 million.

Last month, shareholders agreed to tender shares amounting to 55 percent of the company in cooperation with his bid.

In its current form, they argue, its offer to buy the shares amounts to a bail-out.