Questions tagged [shares]
Units for measuring corporate ownership.
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Why is it not a requirement for companies to pay dividends?
I know next to nothing about finance and money, so I'm working towards becoming financially literate. I'm currently reading articles about stocks on Investopedia. An article states,
Common shares ...
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Buying shares in employer's company during IPO
So the company that I work for has just put out an IPO to float on the share market. They have offered employee's the opportunity to purchase reserved shares before the offer goes public, up to $10 ...
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Am I able to conduct a private sale of public shares at a price that I determine?
I was wondering if it were at all possible to sell my own shares to someone specific at a price I determine?
Let's say I have $1,000 worth of an arbitrary publicly traded company and I wanted to sell ...
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How do share buybacks work?
When a company announces a share buyback program, who do they actually buy back the shares from? Openly traded shares on a stock exchange? Is there a fixed price that they buy back at?
If I own ...
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what is DEMAT equivalent in USA
I am new to USA. In India to trade in market one needs a Demat account and a trading account. but In USA, when I opened an account with a reputable brokerage there was no mention of an account similar ...
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Tax due on foreign exchange element of share option program?
This is quite complicated and to be honest I'm not really expecting anyone to know the answer, but I thought it would be worth asking.
Five years ago my (UK) employer's (French) parent company ...
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What if a quoted company is doing so poorly that it can't sell its shares at any price?
I understand that in order for a trade to occur, a buyer and a seller must agree on the price and that the number of shares transacted at that price is determined by the number of shares available at ...
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Does money made by a company on selling its shares show up in Balance sheet
When we purchase shares of a company for a certain sum of money (e.g: 1000 dollars), is this money immediately available to the company as a cash flow? In the balance sheet, will this money show up ...
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How to invest in drones?
I expect the drones will be in the nearby future something very usual to our daily environment. Therefore I am wondering what is the best way to be invested into drones?
Are there any trusts/funds to ...
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What does "cashes in many of his Enron share options" mean?
I'm studying for an organisational subject and I was reading the following paragraph:
August 2001
Jeffrey Skilling resigns after just six months; Ken Lay returns to day-to-day management of the ...
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What actions 'encumber' shares?
Reading through a shareholder agreement, I encountered the following section:
Encumbering shares
Subject to a special resolution of the shareholders to the contrary, no shareholder shall ...
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How can someone own only a part of a share of stock? Are the rights any different with a fractional share?
A friend told me, he is able to buy parts of a share. So he does not buy one or two shared but one and 1/5 of a share (1.20).
Is this a benefit from the digital age? Because in the past, when shares ...
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Is the return on investment better with high or low dividends?
Consider two companies, A and B. Company A offers little in dividends, and reinvests most its profit. Company B offers generous dividends, but reinvests little of its profit. How would I calculate ...
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Can one use Google Finance to backtest (i.e. simulate trades in the past)?
Is it possible to simulate what would have happened if I started investing 10 years ago using Google Finance?
For example, If I started investing in company XYZ where I could have invested £100 a ...
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Advantages of Shareholder over Director in new Company
I am forming a small company with a few others (in Australia).
I can elect to be a director if I wish, or merely a shareholder.
In either case, the shares will be evenly distributed between us.
I ...
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Recover long lost shares held by brokerage that got acquired
I am a UK citizen and had a brokerage account with suretrade.com in 2001, with a number of positions in NASDAQ traded companies which today would be worth a few thousand USD for the companies still ...
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How much hassle is it inheriting shares?
A UK-resident relative has died and left their estate to be divided between a few people. The executors are still drawing up a list of assets to file for probate, and they include some stock. I've ...
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Am I scammed by this company?
I'd like to ask for a bit of help. In a bad moment I put a good amount of money into a supposedly broker firm.
Now we are in a situation where it happens my shares are preferred shares and they can't ...
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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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Is there a government-mandated resource that lists the shareholders of a public company?
Is there a government-mandated resource that lists the shareholders of a public company, preferably if it included the quantity of shares each shareholder owns?
Would that take the form of something ...
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Does a stock's price represent current liquidation of all shares?
For instance, if a stock is trading at 40 dollars per share, and there are one billion shares being traded, there will be a market capitalization of 40 billion dollars.
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What's the difference between stocks and shares? [duplicate]
I'm doing some research into investing in shares (or stocks, not sure which) and I keep getting confused between shares and stocks. Are they the same thing?
Even on this site the two tags exist and ...
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What's the difference between shares outstanding and regular shares?
Reading the Investopedia definition of outstanding shares, it seems like it includes all cases for a share. So how is it different than a regular share? In other words, why not just call it a share?
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Why a company would prefer selling shares rather than borrowing money?
I hope this question doesn't sound stupid as I don't have much economic knowledge.
If I understand it right, the point of selling shares is that a company can finance itself. But usually small ...
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What is "trading for liquidity reasons"?
In this paper, it says:
For example, routine sells by insiders are commonplace in the market, and can be driven by diversification or liquidity reasons ...
What exactly does “trading for liquidity ...
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What shares are actually being sold in "ATM" format release?
I recently invested in $HMNY, a listed company and the owner of MoviePass. I invested it simply because that I love the MoviePass idea.
Then, rumors says that the company wouldn't last long for the ...
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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 start buying shares with small amount of money?
I am a new immigrant in New Zealand (NZ) who brought some money (not much though) from back home. Those money are resting in my bank and doing nothing. I want to invest some of them in stock market ...
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Is there an ETF/index fund respecting my individual ethical preferences?
The product I am looking for is a diversified ETF like MSCI World, excluding sectors that I do not want my money to be invested in.
Ideally, I would be able to choose a basis ETF (like MSCI World), ...
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How can a share price always have exact even values?
I have a share of Audi, and have been puzzled by the fact that beginning with January 2018 until now, it has always had whole even Euro values – currently 804.00 €. How is this possible? What keeps ...
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What are my rights when I wasn't invited to a shareholder meeting?
I am a shareholder (roughly 20%) and do not have board representation. The company had a shareholder meeting which I was not invited to or aware of. I got a letter in the mail stating that the ...
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Is it best to exercise options shares when they vest, or wait
For my situation, is it better for me to exercise all my option shares whenever they vest (are exercisable), or is there any advantage to waiting?
What are the pros and cons?
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How a company can afford to give away so many shares as part of its ESOP
As part of an employee share ownership plan (ESOP), the employee(s) get a certain # of shares held in their name. Every month, the employer also matches the contribution and let us assume the employee ...
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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 to own more than 100% of outstanding shares?
Suppose there are 100,000 shares outstanding. I own 90,000 shares. I allow my shares to be lent to short sellers. Short sellers borrow 30,000 shares from me and they sell those shares on the market. I ...
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Are stock options worth as much as shares?
I was undergoing salary increase negotiations (after a year) recently and it was decided a percentage of my salary was to be paid in shares.
However, when the offer came, I noticed I would be getting ...
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Can an IPO be cancelled if not successful?
Let's say the Company C goes public using a Fixed Price Offering. It emits 10000 shares at 10 euros per share.
What happens if investors only subscribe to, let's say, 789 shares.
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Can I invest in the housing market via the stock exchange?
Buying houses is expensive these days, and interest on mortgages is extortionate. Do investments via the stock market exist where you can invest in the housing market? Maybe shares in real ...
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Is a company allowed to buy its own shares?
Can a company buy its own shares to manipulate prices? Can it reduce its capital by buying shares? In other words, can a company become its own member?
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How did I end up with a fraction of a share?
My online broker, Fidelity, says that I have 0.16 shares of MSFT. How is this possible? I always assumed that you had to own a whole number of shares.
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Can reverse stock splits create fractional shares with infinitely repeating decimals?
Suppose I own 1 share of company A. Company A then decides to undergo a 1 for 3 reverse stock split. After the reverse split, I will own 1/3 shares (i.e. 0.333333... shares). The number of shares I ...
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What should I do to buy small amount of shares?
Let's assume the following scenario:
I have 5000$ which I am willing to invest(lose). I selected 5 public companies that I would like to buy shares. Is there a way for me (an immigrant who works in ...
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What is a dummy buy?
Trying to understand the basics of buying and selling shares by reading online lit, I just came across this in an online forum:
"Two identical buys just went through back-to-back. Anyone tried a big ...
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Does selling index fund shares for the same amount the account grew by reduce the account's value?
I've been thinking about what retirement looks like, and I'm trying to figure something out. Let's say I have a sum invested ($Y) in an index fund that grew by 60k in 12 months, for a total value of $...
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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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How can I see former major share holders of a company?
I'm attempting to research share holders of companies in the present and in the past.
I've been able to find specific names on Yahoo that are current, for example:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=...
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Return of value to shareholders in an ISA
Note I am situated in the UK.
I hold a number of Vodafone of shares in a stocks and shares ISA. My broker has issued the following message to me:
Vodafone has confirmed plans to sell its stake in ...
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Do convertible preferred shares increase common equity when converted?
Do convertible preferred shares increase common equity (increase the ratio of common equity to preferred equity) when converted? For example there $4m in shareholders equity and there are 4 shares, 2 ...
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Is there something like a covered call for futures?
I am making my first baby steps in learning about future contracts.
In the option market there is something like a covered call, where one can limit the upside risk to the loss of the shares one ...
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Holding shares of company filing for bankruptcy
I own few shares of PG&E and recently got an intimation from my broker regarding the chapter 11 bankruptcy filing by PG&E.
However, I also see the stock price going up for some reason.
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