Company: DSX-PB
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001562762-25-000050
Chunk: 59

Company: DIANA SHIPPING INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 3
Chunk 59
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of

8.875%

per

annum

per

$25.00

stated

liquidation preference

per Series

B Preferred

Share, subject

to increase

upon the

occurrence of

certain

events, and are payable, as and if

declared by our board of directors,

on January 15, April 15, July

15 and

October 15 of each year, or, if any such dividend payment date otherwise would

fall on a date that is not a

business

day,

the

immediately succeeding

business

day.

For

additional information

about

our

Series

B

Preferred Shares, please see the section entitled "Description of Registrant's Securities to be Registered"

of our

registration statement

on Form

8-A filed

with the

SEC on

February 13,

2014 and

incorporated by

reference herein.

The

market

prices

and

trading

volume

of

our

shares

of

common

stock

may

experience

rapid

and

substantial price

volatility, which

could cause

purchasers of

our common

stock to

incur substantial

losses.

Our shares of our common stock may experience

similar rapid and substantial price volatility unrelated

to our financial

performance, which

could cause purchasers

of our common

stock to incur

substantial

losses,

which

may

be

unpredictable

and

not

bear

any

relationship

to

our

business

and

financial

performance. Extreme fluctuations in

the market price of

our common stock may

occur in response to

strong

and

atypical

retail

investor

interest,

including

on

social

media

and

online

forums,

the

direct

access by retail investors

to broadly available trading

platforms, the amount and

status of short interest

in

our

common

stock

and

our

other

securities,

access

to

margin

debt,

trading

in

options

and

other

derivatives on our shares of common

stock and any related hedging

and other trading factors:

If

there

is

extreme

market

volatility

and

trading

patterns

in

our

common

stock,

it

may

create

several

risks for purchasers of

our shares, including the following:

●

the