Preferred stockholders are given preference over common stockholders in payment of dividend and the claim on company assets.
Preferred shareholders receive dividend payments prior to common shareholders since they have priority over the company's income. The company's assets are distributed to preferred shareholders, bondholders, and debtors in that order; common investors are paid out last.
A component of share capital known as preferred stock is often regarded as a hybrid instrument since it might have any combination of characteristics that common stock does not, including characteristics of both an equity and a debt instrument.
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