Ready to Invest: Do I Buy Common or Preferred Shares?

If you find a great company with a great future, are the common shares a better option than the preferred shares? In this segment from The Motley Fool's everything-financials show, Where the Money Is, banking analysts David Hanson and Matt Koppenheffer take a question from their mailbag about buying preferred shares and why it's important to consider things like cumulative vs. non-cumulative characteristics.

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