Stock
From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Stock (disambiguation).
In financial markets, stock is the capital that a firm gets by giving out and distributing of shares.
A person or organisation which holds shares of stocks is called a shareholder. The whole value of the stocks that a firm has issued is called its market capitalization.
In the United Kingdom and Australia, the term share is used the same way as stocks is deccribed here.
[edit] External links
- The oldest share in the world, issued by the Dutch East India Company VOC, 1606.
- Stock Market Trivia: History of Stocks
- Who Decides Stock Prices?
- Your 24/7 financial resource online
- Researching Old Company Stock Certificates
