>Pretty sweet deal if your stock price doesn't go up and you only have to pay minimal interest.
So Tesla is shorting TSLA?
Lol, effectively. A convert is basically a forward stock sale, so if you're TSLA you're basically saying "I get a pretty good cost of capital if my stock stays where it is, but if it goes up a lot, my company is probably in better shape than it was before I raised capital, so I'm more or less happy either way."
Re:Tesla to raise $1B
by nemanja-mit on Thursday March 16, 2017 @01:28AM
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looks like you've done time on a coverts desk ;)
Pretty sweet deal if your stock price doesn't go up and you only have to pay minimal interest.
Here's an example that lays out a similar structure and accounting treatment: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084961/000119312513...