If there is a buyout the equity is assigned a cash and sometimes a equity conversion to the buying company's stock (if public).
After a predetermined conversion date by which the stockholders must choose cash or equity, the bought company will cease trading and all the shareholders will dance away jumping in the air spitting nickles.
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