I understand what we mean when we say: Net Preferred Equity Issued it is the total amount of Preffered Stocks plus their price. But does the chart mean when it says (Purchased)?
What other can it be?
(Please correct me in anything i got wrong...)
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Sign up to join this communityThe (Purchased) means is that the company can also buy back preferred stock and thus create the negative "Net Preferred Equity Issued" that you see around 2010. So the purchased is talking about the company purchasing preferred stock rather than issuing preferred stock.