LYFT IPO was issued at $72/share. Before the IPO, Lyft had 240 million class A shares outstanding and wanted to issue additional 30 million class A shares. On top of that, Lyft gave its underwriters options to purchase another 5 million shares at $72 each. When Lyft stock price fell below the IPO price of $72, to support the stock price, up to how many shares the underwriters could buy from the open market without losing money

5 million shares

Explanation:

In order to avoid losses, they can only buy the same amount of shares that they can receive in the options agreement with Lyft.

If they were to buy more than 5 million shares from the open market, they would incur losses because they would not be able to replace these shares with the ones that they can buy from Lyft as a result of their options aggrement.

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