Warrants: Basics
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Warrants: Basics

Intuition Publishing
Updated Sep 24, 2020

A warrant gives the holder the right to purchase equity (or other securities) from the issuer at a certain price within a certain timeframe. We discuss the features of call and put warrants, and describe the development of the warrants market since the 1960s. We then look at one of the most important aspects of warrants, their leverage capabilities.