Main Supplies is a publicly traded firm with 250,000 shares of stock outstanding. If the firm issues an additional 10,000 shares, those shares will be referred to as a(n):

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An additional issuance of shares by a publicly traded firm is called a seasoned equity offering. It is different from an initial public offering (C) which is when a private company goes public for the first time, and after-market underwriting (E), which refers to the process of selling additional shares after the initial public offering. Supplemental offering (A) and market expansion offer (D) are not commonly used terms in finance.

Main Supplies Is a Publicly Traded Firm with 250,000 Shares