Participating Preferred

Participating Preferred - Participating Preferred is the capital stock certificates which provide a specific dividend paid that is before any dividend paid to the holders of common stock, and which takes precedence over the common stock in the event of the liquidation. This is a form of financing preferred by investors of private equity and venture capital corporations. The participating preferred stock holders get their currency back with interest and the currency distributed with the percentage of common stock shares into a preferred stock. Like common stock certificates it represents a partial ownership in a company or corporation, with shareholders having voting rights.