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preference share capital
noun[ U ]
FINANCE, STOCK MARKET mainly UKukus(mainly UK alsopreference capital); (US alsopreferred capital)
money that a company has from selling preference shares. Shareholders with these shares must be paid before those with ordinary shares when a company is paying dividends or if it goes bankrupt:
Preference capital can be redeemed after a specified period.
Examples of preference share capital
preference share capital
Companies may take into account cumulative preferencesharecapital and subordinated loan capital, known as "hybrid capital", up to prescribed percentages of that margin.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
But deducting £5,566,900, dividend upon £101,218,000 as preferencesharecapital, 5½ per cent., there remain only £5,444,380 for dividend upon £192,434,000, or at the rate of £2.
From Project Gutenberg
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