Nez Riaz / Investopedia A stock, also called an equity or a share, is an ownership stake in the corporation that issued it. A stock is a security that represents ownership of a fraction of the ...

Preferred stock is a hybrid security that has features of both common stock and corporate bonds. Preferred stock is a unique type of equity that grants shareholders priority over common ...

Capital stock represents the total number of shares issued by a company. While capital stock is stock that a company sells, authorized stock, as the name implies, is the number of shares legally ...