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In a rights offering, each shareholder receives the right to purchase a pro-rata allocation of additional shares at a specific price and within a specific period (usually 16 to 30 days). Shareholders are not obligated to exercise this right.
Let's say an investor owns 100 shares of Arcelor Mittal and the shares are trading at $10 each. The company announces a rights issue in the ratio of 2 for 5, i.e., each investor holding 5 shares will be eligible to buy 2 new shares. The company announces a discounted price of, for example, $6 per share.
This is calculated by adding the total value of all of the Company's shares - the market capitalisation - before the rights issue to the total value of the shares being issued and dividing this sum by the total number of the Company's shares that will be in existence after the rights issue has completed.
For example, suppose Corporation XYZ has 100 shares held equally by 10 shareholders. Each shareholder is given the right to purchase five more shares. Before the rights offering, each shareholder owned 10% of the company. If each shareholder buys the five new shares, they'll still each own 10%.
The market may interpret a rights issue as a warning sign that a company is struggling. This might even cause investors to sell their shares, which would bring the price down. With an increased supply of shares available following a rights issue, this could be bad news for a company's market value.