In 2016, 24% of IPOs were "broken" (IPOs whose stock closes below the offering price on their first day).
If Nortel stock closes at $22 today, the puts will be worth $800 a contract, more than 20 times what some traders paid yesterday afternoon.
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But one million of the options would vest on the day Bank One's shares close at $50 or above, and another million would vest the day the stock closes at $60 or above.
For example, if a stock closes at $12.125 one day -- and is thus listed as $12.13 -- and it rises $1.125 the next, the increase will be shown as $1.13, but the price will be $13.25, not $13.26.
As a so-called national market Nasdaq company, BarnesandNoble.com will have a 90-day grace period, during which it can avoid delisting if its stock closes above $1 on any day.
