Stock vs Share: What's the Difference?
Own a hundred shares, and you own a hundred parts.
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1.What is a share?
Own a hundred shares, and you own a hundred parts.
2.In the pizza picture, what does a share stand for?
Stock is the word for the pizza, or any amount of it.
3.Marge holds 100 shares each in companies A, B and C. How many shares is that?
Three lots times 100 is 300 shares, which in speech is three stocks.
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Sources (5)
- Companies Act 2006 (UK), section 540: Shares (legislation.gov.uk)
- Delaware Code, Title 8 (General Corporation Law), Chapter 1, Subchapter V: Sections 151, 153, 159
- Collins English Dictionary, Eintraege "share", "ordinary shares", "common stock", "preferred stock"
- Oxford Learner's Dictionaries, Eintrag "stock" (noun)
- Eigene Rechnung / Beispiel: Leo (New York)
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