Glossary
- Paasche index
- Par value
- Partial execution
- Participation certificates
- Pension fund
- Peoples share
- Performance evaluation
- Performance index
- Physical delivery (warrants)
- Placement
- Placement volume
- Pool factor
- Portfolio
- Practise
- Preferred shares
- Premium
- Premium (warrant)
- Premium Margin
- Price addendum
- Price category
- Price details
- Price index
- Price sensitivity
- Price-cashflow-ratio
- Price-earnings ratio
- Price-to-book-ratio
- Primary market
- Prime All Share
- Prime Standard
- Principle of highest volume transacted
- Private placement (PP)
- Proprietary trading
- Prospectus
- Put warrant
Peoples share
In Germany, a stock resulting from the privatisation of part of a state-owned company that is offered to broad segments of the population at a favorable price
The peoles share is not a category of shares. A share is issued as a peoples share to support certain economic and financial policy goals, i.e. to enable lower-income segments of the population to invest in stocks. They are often issued at a price below market on the condition that the buyer hold them for a certain period of time.
The IPO (Initial Public Offering) of Deutsche Telekom is the most recent example of a German peoples share.
Other examples include Volkswagen, VEBA and Preussag.
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