Questions tagged [shares]
Units for measuring corporate ownership.
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Acquisition/Share holding question
I am trying to figure out my share calculations. I have vested 10,000 shares in my company and they are a private tech company that seems to be on track to be acquired in the next six months. Do I get ...
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I just found my Euro Disney S.C.A share certificates
I've been trying yo find out how i can sell my Euro Disney S.C.A shares. I know Euro Disney brought back the shares in 2017
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What is the probability of each tier of creditor/equity claims being made whole?
In bankruptcy, the broad "tiers" for debt settlement are:
Secured debt (going in order of first lien to second lien and so on)
Priority unsecured debt
General unsecured debt
Preferred ...
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Why doesn't share movement match difference between open and close?
Can someone explain why in the screenshot the opening price is $245 and the closing price is $251 (a difference of $6+) but the green text shows the movement as only +$1.38?
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Can a company with a very large valuation still be held privately?
We see many companies with extremely high valuations like Microsoft, Google, Amazon etc. All these companies are held publicly. (Although the founder might be holding a large portion of the shares; I ...
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What are the reasons for company buyouts, why being a majority stakeholder is not enough?
Why companies are being bought out/taken over completely, why not becoming of a majority shareholder is not enough?
Why Elon Musk bought the whole Twitter, why he didn't get just 51% share of the ...
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Is a stock ISA simply the account one uses to invest in investment platforms?
No matter what I read/watch, it isn't quite clear to me if a stocks/shares ISA is one of the following two:
an account where I can put some money into, and then invest that same money (by linking it ...
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Demating City Union Bank
City Union Bank Share certificate held by my wife jointly with me was returned without demat in 2007 by M/s Integrated Enterprises due to signature mismatch etc. I happened to locate the physical ...
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Company taken over by new owners, how?
More than 10 years ago I was working in, and a part owner of, a company that was traded on the OTC BB. Specifically, my shares were restricted shares under SEC Rule 144, and the shares were not in any ...
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Are losses inside a stocks and shares isa tax refundable in anyway?
I invested 40k in stocks and shares isa. They lost value by 15k.
Is there any way to make this tax deductible somehow?
I hear rich people do stuff like this often.
I'm still holding onto the shares ...
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When a journalist writes "shareholders wiped out" what does this actually mean?
I was reading a newspaper article in the FT where a journalist wrote "shareholders wiped out in restructuring deal". As a novice I'm struggling to conceptualize what "wiped out" ...
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Selling UK inherited shares when resident abroad in a non permitted jurisdiction
I have recently inherited a small number of shares from my mother. These are held by COMPUTERSHARE on behalf of AVIVA. I am executor and sole beneficiary and am trying to liquidate the estate.
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We found share certificates of the Preferred stock from Waconia Creamery Association Waconia MN first one dated 1943 -1958. Are they worth anything?
Waconia Creamery Association gave the farmers that sold milk to the creamery shares in the business. It might have been a Co-op. We think the creamery was part of Waconia Farm Supply. Later it was ...
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Why are preferred shares in the Korean market traded at a discount?
According to the answers here, voting rights don't really matter when it comes to the price of shares. Also, I am not sure about the US market, but in the Korean market, a preferred share usually pays ...
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Why is the price of Berkshire Hathaway B class shares proportional to the face value and not the voting rights?
So there are BRK.A and BRK.B. The face value of BRK.A is 1,500 times of that of BRK.B, and BRK.A has 10,000 times the voting rights of BRK.B. BRK.A is normally traded at about 1,500 times the price of ...
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Where are the Direct Stock Purchases (DSP) sold?
I am new to stack trading. I want to understand if the stock bought directly from a company via Direct Stock Purchase and is in my Demat account, be sold through another Online Brokerage account I ...
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What type of shares do you sell - the good ones or bad ones?
This may sound like a n00b question, but I've never seen any guidance on exactly which shares to sell when wanting to convert some of my portfolio into cash to use for spending.
There are many online ...
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Gnucash trial balance does not balance after entering sale of shares with unrealized gain [closed]
I have been through a few bad transactions turned up by in imbalanced trial balance in Gnucash, but this one stumps me. It seems to be different from the others.
I have used the method posted a while ...
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Why can I not buy fractional stock, but see fractional amounts vested?
I can't buy fractional shares, only integers. But I get some shares from my company as compensation and those are fractional all the time (like 1.7 shares). Also, when dividends are automatically ...
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At what price does a stock get traded if the buy order price is higher than the sell order price?
If a Buyer submits an order for buy price of $10 and a Seller submits an order to sell at $8 - does the price sell at the Buy or the Sell price?
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When a company is listed in more than one exchange, how the stock exchange prevents a double sell of the same share
What prevents a broker from selling the same share simultaneously at two different stock exchanges?
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What was the true stock price of TOPS ships back in the day?
Taking into account reverse splits, it couldn't have been the $173,000,000 a share. Aren't past prices adjusted as the different X's (example 20x) what it "actually was"? Youd have to ...
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How do I profit from having a share in an LLC?
Sorry in advance if I'm asking this question in a wrong place.
For example, if I posses 10% of shares in an LLC in the US that is worth $10 million, what do I profit from? I mean company profits, ...
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my Europcar shares are gone !! France
France Boursorama
I checked my bank account today and I noticed that all my Europcar shares are gone.
I heard that Europcar will be purchased by VOLKSWAGEN GROUP.
I received some letters from my bank ...
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Are shares I issue when forming my company "paid for" or "unpaid"? (UK Ltd Companies)
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is no obligation to pay for shares unless the company is wound up or
goes into liquidation. However, as most shares are issued to raise
capital, it is common to pay for them when they are ...
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Share price goes to zero then goes back up
I've never invested in shares, so I know very little to nothing. But there is a question I've always had about shares (feel free to treat me as stupid when explaining... Will actually help).
If I buy ...
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Pro Rata - Calculate the amount of shares to buy
A company gets incorporated with only 2 stakeholders:
1st stakeholder has 250 shares (a.k.a 33.33%)
2nd stakeholder has 500 shares (a.k.a 66.67%)
Price per share: 1$
On it's first financing round:
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Basics 101 - what is the concept of creating a employee share pool and what happens to existing shares? [closed]
We have a startup with 3 initial share holders, sharing 10,000 shares divided 2500/3700 and 3800.
We want to get things in order now for investment and pre-emptively create an option pool for ...
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Which currency is used when investing in ETFs for foreign indices?
If for example, I invest in an ETF for the S&P 500 or USD Treasury Bond ETF, from the UK with £1000, will this automatically be converted into USD? Then if USD grows stronger against GBP, will ...
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Hostile takeover bid to turn company private - how does it work (current context: Musk / Twitter)?
With regard to the current coverage of Musk announcing his wish to turn Twitter into a private company, I'd appreciate some clarification:
Twitter stock, according to Yahoo Finance, is owned by ...
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Is it possible for the dividend rate to decrease at a constant rate to the future?
I came across the following question;
Mayfair corporation is expected to pay 40% dividends to its shareholders as its
next dividend. However, the company announces that it is not expecting to pay a
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How to use short selling to safeguard or protect an investment?
I came across the following question:
Kumar has 100 shares of ABC Co. which he bought at $ 50. The current market price is
$ 140. Illustrate how Kumar using short selling can safeguard or protect his ...
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Does balance sheet common stock outstanding include RSU's and other restricted shares?
For example I am looking at the stock ticker $USER.
I know that it does not include employee options (I think) but does it include other dilutive shares or not?
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Is a significant amount of directly registered shares new or in any way noteworthy?
I have found this Reddit post, which states that about 25% of Gamestops Free Float (yeah this again) has been directly registered by retail share holders.
The post (and the community as a whole) make ...
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How are votes counted at shareholder meetings?
Especially with large corporations, when there are hundreds or more shareholders attending, this must be a big challenge. Since each shareholder may own a different number of shares, and in some cases ...
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Are these proxy vote questions pointless?
On many proxy vote forms, as a shareholder, you can vote "for" or "withhold" on some board of director members and appointment of an auditor. You can vote "for" or "...
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How to find the stock that I just inherited
My friend passed away Jan 15, 2022. I was notified this week by the custodian of the will, that I am named in the will as beneficiary of all my friend's General Electric Stock.
I was told that ...
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Why is CAPM limited to a 'single period'?
CAPM (capital asset pricing model) has a 'single period' limitation. What does it mean practically?
The CAPM is based on a number of assumptions:
• well-diversified investors
• perfect capital market
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UK investor in US ETFs
I have a question which I hope you can help with. I am interested in an US ETF to invest in. Now, my current brokers Freetrade, Hargreaves do not offer US ETFs due to being identified as PRIIPS thus ...
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Beginner capital gain tax on shares in Australia
I am thinking about depositing some of my money (500-800 AUD) into eToro and buy some shares, just for building good money habits. But I am unfamiliar with the tax implications that I have to face (if ...
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Why are shares not settled on the same day? [duplicate]
I know the settlement process but I am still confused about why trades/shares are settled on T+2nd day. Why the settlement is not done at the very moment we make the trade?
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Is a public company immune from hostile takeovers if at least half of its issued shares are treasury shares?
I used to play Railroad Tycoon Deluxe (1993), the second video game in the groundbreaking Railroad Tycoon series. In the game, every player operates a railroad company (the default scenario is set in ...
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What financial return do investors get when they buy shares in a company besides dividends, value of assets, and gains from changes in stock price? [duplicate]
I'm confused why a shareholder would purchase shares in a stock that doesn't pay dividends.
They don't get part of the profits: Without dividends, when the company earns profits, the shareholder ...
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How stock has some value of its own? [duplicate]
Suppose I buy some stock for 100 but sell it for 50. I will have a loss of 50. It's the same as buying tomatoes for 100 but only able to sell for 50.
However tomatoes have at least some value in ...
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What does "Settling" mean in investing jargon?
When reading upon the definition of Chinese B-shares, I have a question about the following piece of text:
The term B-shares refers to equity share investments in companies based in China. These ...
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Why isn't newly raised cash priced-in after a secondary stock issuance?
I'm an owner in $HUT8. Yesterday after market close they announced a secondary offering of 15% of the shares.
I understand this is dilutive for the shareholders, and today it seemingly led to a drop ...
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I don't have a folio number or the documents of the shares
My father have bought few shares from different companies long ago and lost his documents. And now apart from the company names he doesn't have any other information like folio number or document ...
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Can a company rent stock shares instead of selling them?
I'm beginner in stocks. I know that public companies can sell their stock shares, but what about renting them for a period of time and getting them back? Are there any certain examples that a company ...
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Accelerated Incentive Units or Profit Shares' pros and cons
I'm new to fundamentals of stock/equity.
I have got an offer from an LLC company and the recruiter is saying they will allocate me Accelerated Incentive Units(AIU) which is intended to be treated as ...
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Stamp duty on UK share purchases made by non-UK residents
I am a UK ex-pat living in the EU and have recently bought shares in two different UK companies using an EU-based broker. Following the transactions I was surprised to find that there was no stamp ...
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