Pro rata rights or proportional rights let existing investors keep their ownership stake by investing more when a company raises funding. Pro rata rights, sometimes called proportional rights, are ...

Note: This article is part of Morningstar's 2018 Guide to IRAs special report. A version of this article appeared on Oct. 10, 2016. At first blush, the term "pro rata" sounds like the worst type of ...

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Whenever pro-rata rights are involved, you can always smell some drama. When a company raises a financing round, new and old investors often battle it out for the largest stake they can get. While ...

Two Key Applications for Pro Rata Rules Pro rata is a Latin term that means "in proportion." To use a simple example of pro rata in action, if I go out with a friend and she orders three drinks and I ...