Ericsson wrote:Rights issue won't have significant effect since the number of shares to be issued is won't be more than 10% of the currently issued shares.
who says 1billion shares is little?Although they won't sell all of the new shares once created i don't know who follows closely to know where every single created new share will go,rewarding staff,directors and board are also possible options for new shares
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