Topic 11
Corporate actions and market events
What happens to your shares when the company underneath does something.
- 1IPOs: How Companies Go Public8 min read
- 2Direct Listings and SPACs: The Two Alternative Doors to the Public Market8 min read
- 3Secondary Offerings and Dilution: When the Share Count Changes Underneath You8 min read
- 4Mergers and Acquisitions: What Happens to Your Shares When the Company Is Bought9 min read
- 5Spin-Offs and Carve-Outs: When One Company Becomes Two8 min read
- 6IPO Lock-Up Expirations: The Day the Insiders Can Sell7 min read
- 7Stock Splits and Reverse Splits: Changing the Slices, Not the Pizza7 min read
- 8Buybacks in Depth: When the Company Becomes Its Own Biggest Buyer9 min read
- 9Rights Issues: When the Company Asks Its Own Shareholders for Money8 min read
- 10Tender Offers: The Deal That Arrives in Your Inbox8 min read
- 11Dividends: Declaration, Ex-Date, Record Date, Payment — the Four Dates That Decide Who Gets Paid8 min read
- 12Delisting: When a Stock Leaves the Exchange — and What Your Shares Become8 min read
- 13Bankruptcy: Chapter 11 vs Chapter 7, and the Hierarchy That Decides Who Gets Paid9 min read
- 14Short Squeezes: The Feedback Loop That Makes Markets Briefly Run Backwards — a History9 min read