earnings that are not paid out as dividends, but are reinvested in the company or used to pay debt Technology companies are well known to keep their profits as _______ rather than pay their shareholders dividends.

capital received from investors for stock Google will soon have a very large amount of _______ .

growth by acquisition with an expectation of an increase in earnings per share The Harrah's and Caesar's merger is expected to be _______

A stock offering in which the underwriter buys all of the shares and resells them. Because of the risk, it shows the degree of confidence that the underwriter has in the stock. The executives were confident in their decision to go public after they found out that their IPO was a _______