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stub stock

What does stub stock mean?

After a leveraged recap or LBO, most of the cap structure is debt. What's left of the equity is the stub — high-risk, high-reward, and prone to either ten-bagging or going to zero.

"He bought the stub stock after the recap and rode it from two bucks to twenty."

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What is stub stock?
Stub stock is the thin sliver of equity left over after a company loads itself up with debt, such as after a leveraged buyout.
How do you use stub stock in a sentence?
After the buyout, shareholders were left holding little more than stub stock.
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