Assimilation

  

Categories: IPO, Stocks, Trading

You decided to take your company, Delila’s Delightful Dill Pickles, public. Ursula’s Underwriting has purchased 200 shares. A year later, all of these shares have been snatched up in the market. That’s assimilation. All shares have been unsaddled from the underwriter, and are in the hands of the people.

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