Share (finance)From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Shares)This article does not cite any references or sourcesPlease help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed (March 2008)SecuritiesSecuritiesBondEquitiesInvestment FundDerivativesStructured financeAgency SecuritiesMarketsBond marketStock marketFutures marketForeign exchange marketCommodity marketSpot marketOverthecounter Market (OTC)BondsBonds by couponFixed rate bondFloating rate noteZerocoupon bondInflationindexed bondCommercial paperPerpetual bondBonds by issuerCorporate bondGovernment bondMunicipal bondSovereign bondsEquities (Stocks)StockShareIPOShort SellingInvestment FundsMutual fundIndex FundExchangetraded fund (ETF)Closedend fundSegregated fundHedge fundStructured financeSecuritizationAssetbacked securityMortgagebacked securityCommercial mortgagebacked securityResidential mortgagebacked securityTranchingCollateralized debt obligationCollateralized fund obligationCollateralized mortgage obligationCreditlinked noteUnsecured bondAgency SecuritiesDerivativesOptionsWarrantsFuturesForwardsSwapsCredit DerivativesHybrid Securitiesedit this boxIn financial markets a share is a unit of account for various financial instruments including stocks mutual funds limited partnerships and REITs In British English use of the word shares in the plural to refer to stock is so common that it almost replaces the word stock itself In American English the plural stocks is widely used instead of shares in other words to refer to the stock (or perhaps originally stock certificates) of even a single company Traditionalist demands that the plural stocks be used only when referring to stock of more than one company are rarely heard nowadaysThe income received from shares is called a dividend and a person owning shares is called a shareholderA share of stock is one of a finite number of equal portions in the capital of a company entitling the owner to a proportion of distributed nonreinvested profits known as dividends and to a portion of the value of the company in case of liquidation Shares can be voting or nonvoting meaning they either do or do not carry the right to vote on the board of directors and corporate policy Whether this right exists often affects the value of the share Voting and nonvoting shares are also known as Class A and B shares respectivelyA share entitling to 18 of the Stora Kopparberg copper mineedit See alsoMutual organizationedit External linksOldest sharethe oldest share in the world (Voc 1606)
