Preferred Stock Is Often Sold by Companies

question 12

Multiple Choice

Preferred stock is often sold by companies

• A) wanting to balance their capital structures.
• B) that have a large amount of debt relative to equity.
• C) looking for the taxable advantages of preferred dividends over common stock dividends.
• D) both a and b.

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