1.  Another favorable element is that preferred shareholders will get their money back before common shareholders should the company go bankrupt.

2.  As long as short-term muni-bond rates remain lower than long-term rates, that leaves more money for the common shareholders, and therefore higher yields.

3.  -- Permit holding companies for financial institutions as early as next year, which would encourage companies to form partnerships under a common shareholder.

4.  Common shareholders are to receive warrants.

5.  Common shareholders would run the risk of dilution as the outside investors took their share of the company.

6.  For the common shareholders of Continental, the dilution is just beginning.

7.  GM and Raytheon common shareholders also approved the proposal.

8.  He was the president of the United States when Corning Inc. last failed to pay a dividend to its common shareholders.

9.  If a company gets into trouble, preferreds give investors a claim on assets that also outranks that of common shareholders, although not that of bond owners.

10.  In the merger, Chateau common shareholders exchanged each of their shares for one share of the new company.