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A customer owns 400 shares of ABC stock. ABC is having a rights offering where 20 rights are needed to subscribe to 1 new share. How many new shares can the customer purchase through this rights offering

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20 new stocks

Step-by-step explanation:

each stockholder should receive 1 right for every stock that he/she owns, so this particular investor owns 400 rights. Since he/she needs 20 rights to subscribe to 1 new stock, then the total number of stocks that he/she can buy = 400 / 20 = 20.

Many corporations hand out preemptive rights to their stockholders, which means that whenever new stocks are issued, they will be able to purchase them before any outside investor does.

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