Stock

Stock

The capital stock (or stock) of an incorporated business constitutes the equity stake of its owners. It represents the residual assets of the company that would be due to stockholders after discharge of all senior claims such as secured and unsecured debt. Stockholders' equity cannot be withdrawn from the company in a way that is intended to be detrimental to the company's creditors.

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Famous quotes containing the word stock:

    “I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.”
    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

    “Death and life were not
    Till man made up the whole,
    Made lock, stock and barrel
    Out of his bitter soul,”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)