1 Once upon a time, when you bought broccoli you bought the whole vegetable, stems and crowns. Then it became customary for grocery store produce departments to separate the crowns from the stems and to sell the crowns at a premium. 2  Iâm not a fan of this practice, because I like both parts of the broccoli plant.
A company's first issue of common stock to the public is called an Initial Public Offering. Afterwards, a corporation may issue new equity at any time in order to finance its growth. When new common shares are offered to existing shareholders first, this is called a rights offering.
A new issue is a stock or bond that is being sold to investors for the first time. This new issue can be an Initial Public Offering (IPO) of a company or it can be a new issue floated by an organization that has floated many such issues in the past. The market that deals with these new issues is called the primary market, as opposed to the... Read more.