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Technology Stocks : Advanced Radio Telecom (ARTT)

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To: transmission who wrote (502)3/24/1999 2:30:00 AM
From: Bernard Levy  Read Replies (2) of 1176
 
Hi transmission:

My apologies for butting in, but a floorless convert
is a preferred convertible stock which can be converted
at face value into common shares independently of the
price level of the common. Say, the preferred stock
would have a face value of $100M. If ARTT ever trades at
$2 per share like it did a few months ago, the preferred would
convert into 50 million shares, so that the current stockholders
would suffer massive dilution.

Generally, companies do not resort to floorless convertibles
unless they are desperate, or their management is crooked
or incompetent. I forgot to mention that floorless convertibles
are to shorts what blood in the water is to sharks. Given
Henry Hirsch's experience, I am skeptical that he would ever
go for floorless converts.

Best regards,

Bernard Levy
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