Aktienzusammenlegung

German

Etymology

Aktien (stocks/shares) +‎ Zusammenlegung (merger/consolidation)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈakt͡si̯ənt͡suˌzamənleːɡʊŋ]
  • Hyphenation: Ak‧ti‧en‧zu‧sam‧men‧le‧gung

Noun

Aktienzusammenlegung f (genitive Aktienzusammenlegung, plural Aktienzusammenlegungen)

  1. (finance) reverse stock split, stock consolidation (a corporate action in which a company reduces the total number of its outstanding shares by replacing them with a smaller number of new shares)
    Die geplante Aktienzusammenlegung im Verhältnis fünf zu eins soll den Aktienkurs wieder über die Ein-Euro-Marke heben.
    The planned stock consolidation at a ratio of five to one is intended to lift the share price back above the one-euro mark.
    Viele institutionelle Anleger dürfen aufgrund ihrer Anlagerichtlinien keine Papiere halten, die durch eine unterlassene Aktienzusammenlegung als Penny Stocks eingestuft werden.
    Many institutional investors are prohibited by their investment guidelines from holding securities classified as penny stocks due to a lack of reverse stock split.

Declension

Synonyms

  • Reverse-Split (reverse split)
  • Kapitalschnitt (capital cut; often occurring simultaneously in crises)

Antonyms

  • Aktiensplit (stock split)
  • Aktienteilung (stock division)

Hypernyms

Coordinate terms

  • Anlagevolumen (the total value of the position remains unchanged)
  • Kapitalherabsetzung (capital reduction; often the legal framework)
  • Penny Stock (the status often triggering a consolidation)
  • Werthaltigkeit (is not increased by the measure itself, only the price per unit)

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