Therefore, a bonus share issue is very similar to a stock split.

Investors were angered by a bonus share award of over £2 million despite poor company performance.

Bonus shares are distributed in a fixed ratio to the shareholders.

A bonus share issue is not a dividend.

Investors will also receive bonus shares for holding the shares more than a year.

Bonus units from a unit trust are similar to bonus shares.

Although shareholders continued to enjoy bonus shares, rights issues, and significant dividends, the share price plateaued.

An issue of bonus shares is referred to as a bonus issue.

It works by an existing public company issuing a bonus share at a rate of 1 for 1 in the new company.

The paid-up capital of the Bank has been increased several times in the past by the issue of bonus shares to shareholders.

The Bonus Share Scheme was announced so that factory workers can own shares of their company.

Although they will not qualify for discounts or bonus shares, they will get a larger allocation.

While the issue of bonus shares increases the total number of shares issued and owned, it does not change the value of the company.

Investors were angered by a bonus share award of £2.4m in the face of the supermarket's drop in market share.

The company must notify the allotment of bonus shares to Companies House on Form SH01.

On February 25, in an effort to mitigate investor losses, Reliance Power decided to issue 3 bonus shares for every 5 shares held.

A bonus share is a free share of stock given to current shareholders in a company, based upon the number of shares that the shareholder already owns.

If you get bonus shares (new free shares) or shares in exchange for your existing shares, your shareholding may change.

Bonus shares issued by a company from its share capital account are treated the same as splits (above), they only change the number of shares in the holding.

However there are complicated rules to apply when bonus shares are offered in lieu of dividends, or when they're part-paid shares.

The LSETRI assumes that if a component company issues bonus shares or announces a rights issue it will increase the listed capital.

It said the bonus issue would be on the basis of one bonus share for each share held and also one free warrant for every one share held.

The Cardinals did not win another game in the Series, but the loser's bonus share paid to each Cardinals player ($4,321.99) still amounted to nearly two-thirds of Musial's regular season salary.

The effect of this is that equity shares, or rights to them, can be allotted as subscribers' shares, bonus shares or pursuant to an employees' share scheme without first offering pre-emptive rights.

The Board of Directors did however agree to a scrip issue by issuing one bonus share for every two old shares to all new shareholders who purchased shares during the April scrip issue.