1 Once upon a time, when you bought broccoli you bought the whole vegetable, stems and crowns. Then it became customary for grocery store produce departments to separate the crowns from the stems and to sell the crowns at a premium. 2  Iâm not a fan of this practice, because I like both parts of the broccoli plant.
A company's first issue of common stock to the public is called an Initial Public Offering. Afterwards, a corporation may issue new equity at any time in order to finance its growth. When new common shares are offered to existing shareholders first, this is called a rights offering.
1 Called up share capital is the total amount of issued capital for which the shareholders are required to pay. 2  This may be less than the subscribed capital as the company may ask shareholders to pay by instalments.f the allocation price of shares is greater than their par value, e.g. as in a rights issue, the shares are said to be sold at a premium (called share premium, additional paid-in capital or paid-in capital in excess of par).