preferreds

Willis can call the preferreds as soon as February 2011, so plan on holding them for one-year only.

Home Administrator 2010

Willis can call the preferreds as soon as February 2011, so plan on holding them for one-year only.

BloggingStocks Steven Halpern 2010

Willis can call the preferreds as soon as February 2011, so plan on holding them for one-year only.

Home 2010

I do not know, but here is my best guess. the preferreds are a relatively minor part of the capital of the banks and are not currently being added to (like the common).

SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

According to the quarterly filing, some preferreds outstanding have annual dividend rates as high as 8.6% and the bank paid a total of $343 million in dividends to preferred holders in the third quarter.

BofA Weighs Big Stock-for-Debt Swap David Benoit 2011

And some of these banks had five or six times their common equity in trust preferreds.

Transcript: Richard Bove Steve Forbes 2010

To reduce risk, you can invest in a diversified group of preferreds.

Betting Against China By Gregory Zuckerman 2011

I mean, I did a screen of some 1,140 banks -- every bank in the United States that had over $100 million in assets -- and what I discovered is that the smaller the bank, the greater the amount of trust preferreds on their balance sheet.

Get Briefed: Richard Bove Alexandra Zendrian 2010

Another fan of preferreds: Warren Buffett 's Berkshire Hathaway , which recently made a $5 billion preferred-stock investment in Bank of America .

Betting Against China By Gregory Zuckerman 2011

"Investors should think of preferreds as somewhere between a stock and a bond," says Mitch Schlesinger, chief investment officer of FBB Capital Partners.

Betting Against China By Gregory Zuckerman 2011