over-allotment

over-allotment
over-allotment UK US (also overallotment) noun [C or U]
FINANCE, STOCK MARKET in a share offering (= time when shares are offered for sale), extra shares that are available if all the main shares are sold: »

AT&T made an offering of 4.2 million common shares with an overallotment option of 630,000 shares.


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