Blockbuster stock to be delisted from NYSE

From CNET News.com: Blockbuster's stock will no longer be available on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) starting next week, the company announced in a statement Thursday.

The issue, according to Blockbuster, started in November, when the NYSE contacted the company and informed it that because its shares had an average price of less than $1 over a consecutive 30-day period, it was in danger of being delisted from the market, if it couldn't find a remedy at its annual meeting in May. Since then, the company's stock price has stayed below $1 per share.

In an attempt to save its stock, Blockbuster executives decided that the only way to keep the company from being delisted was to convert Class B common stock into Class A common stock, as well as buy back some outstanding shares. The result, the executives hoped, was to increase the price of Blockbuster's ailing shares and keep the company listed on the NYSE.

According to Blockbuster, the company's investors passed both measures to save the stock, but low voter turnout caused the company to not tally the required number of votes to approve the measure. The NYSE has now informed Blockbuster that it will delist it next week.

"Because the reverse-stock-split proposal was not approved by the requisite number of votes, the NYSE has informed the company that it intends to begin the process to delist both the Class A and Class B common stock," Blockbuster wrote in a statement.

As of this writing, Blockbuster's stock is trading at 18 cents per share. That stands in stark contrast to Netflix, which is enjoying a solid share price of $107.

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