issue investment & finance definition
A
security that will be sold to public or private investors. Those securities may
be stocks or bonds. The term may also be used as a verb to indicate that a
company plans to issue a bond offering.
See issue in Wall Street Words
A particular grouping of an organization's securities. For example, General Motors has a number of different issues of preferred stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
To sell securities in the primary market. For example, in late 1996, Florida Panthers Holdings, Inc., owner of the NHL hockey team, issued 2,700,000 Class A shares of common stock at a price of $10 per share.
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