Definition of Secondary issue

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Secondary issue

1) Procedure for selling blocks of seasoned issues of stocks.
2) More generally, sale of already issued stock.

Related Terms:

Benchmark issues

Also called on-the-run or current coupon issues or bellwether issues. In the secondary
market, it's the most recently auctioned Treasury issues for each maturity.

Cheapest to deliver issue

The acceptable Treasury security with the highest implied repo rate; the rate that a
seller of a futures contract can earn by buying an issue and then delivering it at the settlement date.

Current issue

In Treasury securities, the most recently auctioned issue. Trading is more active in current
issues than in off-the-run issues.

Dual-currency issues

Eurobonds that pay coupon interest in one currency but pay the principal in a different
currency.

Euroequity issues

Securities sold in the Euromarket. That is, securities initially sold to investors
simultaneously in several national markets by an international syndicate. Euromarket.
Related: external market

Issued share capital

Total amount of shares that are in issue. Related: outstanding shares.

Issuer

An entity that issues a financial asset.

Multiple-issuer pools

Under the GNMA-II program, pools formed through the aggregation of individual
issuers' loan packages.

New-issues market

The market in which a new issue of securities is first sold to investors.

Original issue discount debt (OID debt)

Debt that is initially offered at a price below par.

Investors are not able to buy all of the shares or bonds they want, so underwriters must
allocate the shares or bonds among investors. This occurs when a new issue is underpriced or in great demand
because of growth prospects.

Presold issue An issue

that is sold out before the coupon announcement.

Reopen an issue

The Treasury, when it wants to sell additional securities, will occasionally sell more of an
existing issue (reopen it) rather than offer a new issue.

Seasoned issue

issue of a security for which there is an existing market. Related: Unseasoned issue.

Seasoned new issue

A new issue of stock after the company's securities have previously been issued. A
seasoned new issue of common stock can be made by using a cash offer or a rights offer.

Secondary market

The market where securities are traded after they are initially offered in the primary
market. Most trading is done in the secondary market. The New York stock Exchange, as well as all other stock exchanges, the bond markets, etc., are secondary markets. Seasoned securities are traded in the
secondary market.

Small issues exemption

Securities issues that involve less than $1.5 million are not required to file a
registration statement with the SEC. Instead, they are governed by Regulation A, for which only a brief
offering statement is needed.

Specific issues market

The market in which dealers reverse in securities they wish to short.

Unseasoned issue

issue of a security for which there is no existing market. See: seasoned issue.

Vanilla issue

A security issue that has no unusual features.

Issued shares

The number of shares that the company has sold to the public.

Secondary Market

The market where securities are exchanged between investors.
secondary market transactions have no effect on the issuing
company.

Issue date

The date a security is first offered for sale. That date usually
determines when interest payments, known as coupons, are made.

Unissued stock

Stock that has been authorized for use, but which has not yet been
released for sale to prospective shareholders.

issued shares

Shares that have been issued by the company.

rights issue

issue of securities offered only to current stockholders.

secondary market

Market in which already issued securities are traded among investors.

Secondary Market

New security issues are first sold directly to the public by the issuing firm or the government. After this initial sale, the owners of the securities can trade them among themselves or others; such activity is said to take place on the secondary market.

Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF)

A special committee of the Financial Accounting Standards Board established to reach consensus of how to account for new and unusual financial transactions that have the potential for creating differing financial reporting practices.

Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF)

A separate committee within the Financial Accounting Standards Board composed of 13 members representing CPA firms and preparers of financial statements
whose purpose is to reach a consensus on how to account for new and unusual financial transactions
that have the potential for creating differing financial reporting practices.

Inventory issue

A transaction used to record the reduction in inventory from a location,
because of its release for processing or transfer to another location.

Secondary Market

In investment terminology, the market in which securities are traded after they have been issued by corporations. When a company sells a new issue of securities, the transaction is considered a "primary market transaction".

Issue

When an item is approved and released for sale, or when a policy or sales contract is accepted.

Issue Age

Age of an insured as at the policy issue date, using "age nearest" next birthday formula.

Issue Date

Date on which a policy is approved.

Primary market

The first buyer of a newly issued security buys that security in the primary market. All
subsequent trading of those securities is done in the secondary market.

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