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This type of offering is not dilutive, since no new shares are being created.

And two, what is the dilutive effect of options in the money?"

"The question is to what extent it will be dilutive to existing shareholders," he added.

"To continue to expand would have been dilutive to shareholders.

Lucent also said the deal was expected to be slightly dilutive to its earnings next year.

During the conference call, the company's executives said the deal would be dilutive to its earnings for the first year after completion.

The earnings per share reflect a dilutive effect from an increase of about 30 million shares outstanding.

"We're not going to do dilutive acquisitions - why shoot ourselves in the foot?"

"We're not about to revert to past practices of dilutive acquisitions," he said.

"I can't think of any other merger in this industry that has come close to being that dilutive," he said.

But you cannot acquire businesses with huge upside potential without them being dilutive in the near term."

Management stated that the capital injection shall have no dilutive impact to existing shareholders.

Share earnings assumes issuance or conversion of all dilutive securities.

Goldman contends its offer would be less dilutive to shareholders, giving them at least a 63.5 percent stake in the trust and the property.

Warrants issued by the company itself are dilutive.

The reverse is true for a dilutive transaction.

"There is a slight negative: It looks like they paid a pretty steep price and it will be dilutive in the short term."

In the 1988 periods, the assumed conversion of the preferred stock was not dilutive and therefore not included.

Some uncertainty thus hangs over the shares, with investors concerned over the potential dilutive effect of the proposed rights issue.

In contrast, a transaction is dilutive if the earnings per share decreases following the transaction.

"It would make it a highly dilutive transaction."

Bernard J. Ebbers, the company's president and chief executive, had promised he would not do a dilutive deal.

"But it is fairly dilutive in the first year, so it is a risky investment.

Some analysts said the deal could be dilutive to Mellon's earnings if the company does not buy back some of its shares after the merger.

The transaction will compleate in the next few months and will be modestly earnings dilutive, the company added.