Question

A customer holds 100 shares of ABC Corp $100 par convertible preferred stock convertible at a 10 to 1 ratio. If ABC declares and pays a 10% stock dividend, then as of the payable date, the customer will now have:_______.A. 90 shares of ABC preferred stockB. 100 shares of ABC preferred stockC. 100 shares of ABC preferred stock and 10 shares of ABC common stockD. 110 shares of ABC preferred stock

Answer 1

Answer:

B. 100 shares of ABC preferred stock

Explanation:

Shares are ownership stakes of a company that are given out to individuals who contribute to capital base of a company.

Preference shares are those whose owners recieve preference in payment of dividends, a fixed dividend is paid to them.

Ordinary shares recieve less preference when dividend is paid, usually coming last in divedend payment.

In this scenario ABC has decided to pay 10% stock dividend. This will be paid to ordinary share holders.

So the person with 100 preference shares will have 100 preference shares

10% of par value of $100 is 0.1 * 100= $10

Number of shares are 100 so the value is now 100 * $10 = $1,000

Since the conversion rate of preference to ordinary shares is 10:1

Number of preference shares= 1,000 ÷ 10= 100 preference shares