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Piggyback registration occurs when a company's newly printed shares are sold to the public, and the existing shares "piggyback" onto them.

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Finance allah shmoop What is piggyback registration Okay okay So

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you know what Piggyback rides are right These things yet

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a boon for back surgeons chiropractors and acupuncturists all in

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one goofy stupid move Well piggyback securities registration works kind

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of the same way A given stock is about to

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be registered ahead of an initial public offering Yeah i

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po and the pee There is not for piggyback although

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it would be cool if it wass a bunch of

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investors invested in the company while it was private and

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employees received common stock options as part of their compensation

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Will maybe some employees bought out those options and now

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own common shares So there's an amalgam of different flavors

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of shares out there more or less representing the same

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thing You have preferred stock purchased by investing investors like

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they paid cash up front which will all convert to

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common stock when the company officially floats or goes public

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And you have stock options that are bought out by

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actual common shares owned by employees But then you have

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the company selling newly printed common shares to the public

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in this offering like whatever dot com has one hundred

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Million shares in total now it's going toe print twenty

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million new shares to sell to the public Thank you

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xerox machine for running in the wee hours there So

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those twenty million shares will of course be registered because

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they're being sold to the public and their myriad rules

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and regulations about selling things to mon pa kettle public

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But then what about the hundred million sitting outside of

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those twenty million that will be registered through myriad lawyers

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with endless nighttime meetings in a lot of talk and

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coffee Well what happens to those other hundred million Well

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they essentially get piggyback registration writes on top of those

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twenty million shares being registered they get them so that

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they're all treated equally more or less as if they

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were also registered along with those twenty million that went

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through the painful aipo registration process where the lawyers you

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know ask management to turn their head and cough and

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do other invasive things Then all those shares once they've

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been piggybacked and registered together are freely and readily tradable

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when the proper windows opened for them to be traded

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that is in most cases insiders can't sell their shares

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On an open stock market under the rule one forty

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four eight system which means that they have to wait

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six months and change before they can sell them But

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then they can sell them And when they can under

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piggyback registration writes those shares would then be treated as

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if they too were just normal Registered shares like the

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ones that went out in the aipo courtesy of the

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xerox machine And so the combined entity all looks about 00:02:47.298 --> [endTime] the same two way You know bear market

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