preference shares

英 [ˈprefrəns ʃeəz]

美 [ˈprefrəns ʃerz]

n.  优先股

BEC

柯林斯词典

• 优先股
  Preference sharesare shares in a company that are owned by people who have the right to receive part of the company's profits before the holders of ordinary shares are paid. They also have the right to have their capital repaid if the company fails and has to close.

in AM, use 美国英语用 preferred stock

英英释义

noun

• stock whose holders are guaranteed priority in the payment of dividends but whose holders have no voting rights
  Synonym:preferred stockpreferred shares

双语例句

• Many are also deciding against issuing preference shares.
  许多企业还拒不发行优先股。
• Securities companies maintain the investment characteristics of preference for holding equity shares of smaller companies, and try to avoid cross-holdings shares with other agencies.
  证券公司在持股方面保持了偏好总股本较小公司的股票和尽量避免与其它机构交叉持股的投资特点。
• The government has said taking preference shares which pay fixed rate of interest but have no voting rights in companies that it invests in is an option but it is also open to other methods of reflecting its equity.
  荷兰政府曾表示，获得所投资的公司的优先股支付固定利息但没有投票权是一个选择，但也会考虑其它反映其权益的方法。
• Preference shares are more like fixed-interest loans since the dividend is set in advance, and must be paid if the company is in profit.
  优先股的股息是预先固定的，因此更像是债券，只要公司有盈利，就必须付股息。
• The UK is also stricter on dividends, suspending them until the preference shares are redeemed.
  英国对待派息也更为严格，在优先股赎回之前，暂停股息支付。
• Empirical research results show that securities firms holding preference shares on the characteristics of less importance to the fundamentals of the stock market, more emphasis on facial features.
  实证研究的结果表明，证券公司持股偏好上对股票的基本面特征不太重视，对股票的市场面特征比较重视。
• There are also key differences with regard to taking preference shares.
  在购买优先股方面，各国还存在着一些关键分歧。
• The sale comes as Citigroup faces intense pressure to cut costs after issuing preference shares to the US government to raise much-needed capital.
  在向美国政府发行优先股，以筹集迫切所需资金后，花期集团面临削减成本的强大压力。
• Preference shares could also smooth over the sticky issue of Chinese voting rights ( although this is not really worth fretting about anyway).
  优先股还能解决中方投票权的棘手问题（不过，这点本来就不值得烦恼）。
• Executives are also pressing the government to allow them quickly to replace the preference shares, either by selling assets or by raising additional capital from private investors.
  高管们同时也向政府施压，希望允许他们通过出售资产或向私人投资者募集额外资本，来迅速替换优先股。