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P/E Ratio Price/earnings ratio. ... Add a comment 0
Par The nominal dollar amount assigned to a security b... Add a comment 0
Par Bond A bond selling at its face value. ... Add a comment 0
Pari Passu Equably, rateably, without preference. Generally u... Add a comment 0
Participating Preferred Stock Preferred stock which entitles the holder not only... Add a comment 0
Partnership A form of conducting business in which the parties... Add a comment 0
Patent The exclusive right, granted by a government, to m... Add a comment 0
Patent Pending (USA) A Patent Office statement indicating that a ... Add a comment 0
Pay As You Earn (PAYE) (UK) A British taxation scheme where taxes are ded... Add a comment 0
Pay to Play A provision in venture financing documents which s... Add a comment 0
Payment in Kind (PIK) A feature of a security permitting the issuer to p... Add a comment 0
PEE/ PEG: These are the basic types of medium-term employee ... Add a comment 0
Penny Stock (USA) A stock that trades for less than $1.00 per ... Add a comment 0
Phantom Plan An incentive plan where participants receive cash ... Add a comment 0
Piggy-back Registration Rights (USA) Contractual rights granted to security holde... Add a comment 0
Pink Sheets (USA) Pinksheets LLC provides broker/dealers, issu... Add a comment 0
Pipeline The aggregate of securities which are in the proce... Add a comment 0
Pit See `Ring’. ... Add a comment 0
Placement Agent A person or entity that acts as agent for the issu... Add a comment 0
Plain English (USA) The SEC rules requiring issuers to write the... Add a comment 0
Pledging Offering assets to a lender as collateral for a lo... Add a comment 0
Poison Pill The most famous anti-take-over device. It normally... Add a comment 0
Pooling of Interests Accounting (USA) A method of accounting for a business combin... Add a comment 0
PORTAL `Private Offerings, Resale and Trading through Aut... Add a comment 0
Power of Attorney A legal document that enables one person to legall... Add a comment 0
Pratt’s Guide A directory of USA venture capital firms, the type... Add a comment 0
Pre-emptive Right The right of an investor to participate in a finan... Add a comment 0
Pre-IPO Capital/Fund `Late round’ venture capital financing in connecti... Add a comment 0
Pre-Money or Pre-Money Valuation The valuation of a company immediately before inve... Add a comment 0
Preferred Stock Stock which has a `preference’ over common stock, ... Add a comment 0
Preferred Stock, Cumulative See `Cumulative Preferred Stock’. ... Add a comment 0
Preliminary Prospectus The form of prospectus used to solicit indications... Add a comment 0
Premature exercise of stock options This is what employees do when they exercise their... Add a comment 0
Premier marché : French regulated market listing the shares of the ... Add a comment 0
Premium Shares of a new issue trade at a premium if their ... Add a comment 0
Premium Options Options that have an exercise price above market v... Add a comment 0
Pricing Call The discussion between the company and the underwr... Add a comment 0
Primary Distribution/Shares A distribution (ie public offering) of securities ... Add a comment 0
Private Company See `Closed Corporation’. ... Add a comment 0
Private Letter Ruling (USA) A letter sent by the Internal Revenue Servic... Add a comment 0
Private Placement The offer and sale of securities not involving a p... Add a comment 0
Private Placement Memorandum (or Private Offering A document used to describe securities being offer... Add a comment 0
Pro Forma A latin term meaning `for form’. Pro forma financi... Add a comment 0
Prospectus A document which must be delivered to recipients o... Add a comment 0
Prospectus Directive A Directive of the European Commission requiring t... Add a comment 0
Proxy Proxy refers either to (1) a person, such as a mem... Add a comment 0
Public Float See `Float’. ... Add a comment 0
Public Offering An offering of stock to the general investing publ... Add a comment 0
Public Orphan A company which is publicly held, but where there ... Add a comment 0
Punitive Financing Round A round of financing in which some of the existing... Add a comment 0
Purchase Accounting The normal method of accounting for a business com... Add a comment 0
Purchaser Representative (USA) A person who acts on behalf of a purchaser o... Add a comment 0
Put Option A contract that gives the optionee, or holder the ... Add a comment 1


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