{"id":4253,"date":"2023-03-16T10:18:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T10:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fisdomdevel.wpengine.com\/glossary\/preferential-shares\/"},"modified":"2023-03-16T10:18:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T10:18:45","slug":"preferential-shares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/preferential-shares\/","title":{"rendered":"Preferential Shares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nPreferential shares are a part of a company&#8217;s share capital.<\/p>\n<p>Preferential Shares or Preference shares allow shareholders to enjoy a preferrential access to the company&#8217;s dividends and profits over common or equity shareholders. Some of the common types of preferential shares include:<\/p>\n<p>a. Convertible Preference Shares<br \/>\nb. Non-Convertible Preference Shares<br \/>\nc. Redeemable Preference Shares<br \/>\nd. Non-Redeemable Preference Shares<br \/>\ne. Participating Preference Shares<br \/>\nf. Non-Participating Preference Shares<br \/>\ng. Cumulative Preference Shares<br \/>\nh. Non-Cumulative Preference Shares<br \/>\ni. Adjustable Preference Shares<\/p>\n<h2>Can preferential shares be converted to common equity?<\/h2>\n<p>These shares can be converted to common stock if the terms of issue permit the same.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preferential shares are a part of a company&#8217;s share capital. Preferential Shares or Preference shares allow shareholders to enjoy a preferrential access to the company&#8217;s dividends and profits over common or equity shareholders. Some of the common types of preferential shares include: a. Convertible Preference Shares b. Non-Convertible Preference Shares c. Redeemable Preference Shares d. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ipo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fisdom.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}