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The combining of two or more firms to form an entirely new entity.
A term used mainly by technical analysts to refer to the movement of a stock"s price within a well-defined pattern or barrier of trading levels.
The process by which a company changes the structure of its share capital by reducing the number of shares it has in issue and increasing the par value of each. For instance, a company with 100,000,000 shares in issue having a nominal value of 10p might consolidate on a 1-for-10 basis, reducing the number of shares to 10,000,000 and changing the nominal value to Ј1. As a shareholder, the number of shares you own would be reduced, their nominal value would rise to compensate, and the market price of the shares should also rise to reflect the greater "ownership" which each share represents in the company.Note that a consolidation is the opposite of a scrip issue, in which the number of shares rises, and their nominal value and market price falls
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Consolidation \ The combining of two or more firms to form an entirely new entity.
A term used mainly by technical analysts to refer to the movement of a stock"s price within a well-defined pattern or barrier of trading levels.
The process by which a company changes the structure of its share capital by reducing the number of shares it has in issue and increasing the par value of each. For instance, a company with 100,000,000 shares in issue having a nominal value of 10p might consolidate on a 1-for-10 basis, reducing the number of shares to 10,000,000 and changing the nominal value to Ј1. As a shareholder, the number of shares you own would be reduced, their nominal value would rise to compensate, and the market price of the shares should also rise to reflect the greater "ownership" which each share represents in the company.Note that a consolidation is the opposite of a scrip issue, in which the number of shares rises, and their nominal value and market price falls
Consolidation / the combining of two or more firms to form an entirely new entity.
a term used mainly by technical analysts to refer to the movement of a stock"s price within a well-defined pattern or barrier of trading levels.
the process by which a company changes the structure of its share capital by reducing the number of shares it has in issue and increasing the par value of each. for instance, a company with 100,000,000 shares in issue having a nominal value of 10p might consolidate on a 1-for-10 basis, reducing the number of shares to 10,000,000 and changing the nominal value to Ј1. as a shareholder, the number of shares you own would be reduced, their nominal value would rise to compensate, and the market price of the shares should also rise to reflect the greater "ownership" which each share represents in the company.note that a consolidation is the opposite of a scrip issue, in which the number of shares rises, and their nominal value and market price falls
