How to Use tracking stock in a Sentence
tracking stock
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The data is training algorithms that read images to track stock on shelves.
—Tom Simonite, WIRED, 25 Apr. 2018
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How much will owners of Dell’s VMWare tracking stock get paid?
—Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 2 July 2018
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With a tracking stock, a company would sell shares of a business unit that merely tracked the performance of the division.
—Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 9 Mar. 2021
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MicroStrategy, in other words, is now more of a bitcoin tracking stock than a software stock.
—Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 9 June 2021
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For those of you who don’t spend the summer tracking stock prices, the market has been climbing to new highs since bottoming out in late December.
—Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
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Ticker tape was printed from stock tickers, a machine that was used to track stock information, and it was used as a source of scrap paper that people threw during the parades.
—Allen Kim and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN, 21 Apr. 2020
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At Amazon Go, customers needn’t even pull out their wallets to pay, thanks to an app that tracks stock and charges their accounts automatically.
—Jane Black, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2018
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To retire the tracking stock, VMWare paid an $11 billion special dividend to its shareholders.
—Antoine Gara, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2021
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Less than 18 months ago, his fund launched an ETF tracking stocks of companies expected to benefit from any increase in Brent crude oil prices.
—Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
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Dell’s current plan to go public involves buying out that tracking stock for a mix of cash and shares in the resulting Dell entity, so enough opposition by holders of the tracking stock could stymie its efforts.
—Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2018
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The tracking stock representing 53% ownership of VMWare could not keep pace with its soaring stock, at times trading at discounts of about 40%.
—Antoine Gara, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2021
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Futures contracts that track stocks in the United States traded erratically, suggesting that the markets on Friday could be in for another day of uncertainty.
—Matt Phillips and Tiffany Hsu, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018
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Formula One Group Series, a tracking stock owned by Liberty Media that reflects the economic interest in the commercial operations of the FIA Formula One World Championship, appeared in the consumer experience group.
—Assiatou Hann, CNBC, 21 July 2026
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