Undetachable Stock Warrant

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We're not talking warrants here like...cops with battering rams busting down your door and rifling through your stuff. These warrants have to do with financial securities.

A warrant grants the holder the right to buy a security (like stock) under certain pre-set conditions. So like...a company issues you a warrant to buy 1,000 shares of stock at $20 a share. The stock is currently trading at $15. Obviously, you're going to hold onto that warrant until shares get above $20. Sometimes, these warrants are part of another security, usually something like a bond. You buy a bond paying an 8% return. It also contains a stipulation that allows you to buy 1,000 shares of stock at $20 a share.

The warrant is like a sweetener for the bond. You're loaning the company money, but the warrant gives you the ability to acquire equity in the future, if the conditions are right.

Sometimes, these warrants can be removed from the underlying bond and sold separately. You decide that you like receiving the 8% interest from the bond...but the stock's been stuck between $15 and $18 for a long time. You're tired of waiting, so you sell your warrant to another investor. You'll take some cash now. You keep the bond, but sell the warrant. That situation is called a detachable warrant. The two things are separable.

As you've probably guessed, an undetachable warrant is the other kind. The bond and warrant are like conjoined twins attached at the brain stem...no way to separate them. You can sell the bond with the warrant (the two get sold together), but you can't keep one and sell the other. They're a packaged deal.

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Finance allah shmoop what is ah warrant Oh it's Acute

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option Like kind of a stock option Light Yeah That's

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How to think about it anyway Okay Okay It pretty

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much feels just like a stock option And yes there

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are put warrants and call warrants in the same vein

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as put options and call options So then what's the

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diff why don't we just call a warrant a stock

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option Well warrants have you know their own little characteristics

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here and they're usually issued by the company itself where

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a stock options on say microsoft will They can be

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issued by anyone who deals in options like goldman morgan

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ups sumitomo whoever whatever investment bank that makes capital markets

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trading happened they can issue options trade him have a

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spread and then make profits in them and there's nothing

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the company can really do about it They can all

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create derivative securities on stocks or bonds of their own

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volition And the company itself just kind of stands there

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looking by and wondering why they didn't get into the

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investment banking business Well goldman morgan and the others then

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offer trading in those options on exchanges in regular form

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Such that many buyers and sellers generally come together liquid

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lee to trade and you know generate profit margins for

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the desks of the bank's trading the securities right The

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banks are basically the casino house and they end up

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making most the money most of time Got that Okay

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another difference warrants and options here Warming's can last five

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ten twenty years that's Usually how many weeks options last

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and the question remains Why would a company issue what

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are essentially cheap stock options too Others to buy slices

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of its own pie While the answer as with most

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of these types of company deals is that the company

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has to issue those warrants to get a deal done

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like you know to settle a patent dispute or created

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distribution or manufacturing partnership or some of their tactical arrangement

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to make the good better and to make the problems

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go away well warrants generally or simply held for the

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duration of the partnership or of the company's existence is

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an independent and city well and conversely options are traded

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liquid leon exchanges all over the world and they can

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be sold without a whole lot of discussion with company

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Here this kind of warrant which gives you the right

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to throw a piece of paper in your own financial

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