Types of shares
A company may have many different types of shares that come with different conditions and rights.
There are four main types of shares:
Ordinary shares are standard shares with no special rights or restrictions. They have the potential to give the highest financial gains, but also have the highest risk. Ordinary shareholders are the last to be paid if the company is wound up.
Preference shares typically carry a right that gives the holder preferential treatment when annual dividends are distributed to shareholders. Shares in this category have a fixed value, which means that a shareholder would not benefit from an increase in the business' profits. However, usually they have rights to their dividend ahead of ordinary shareholders if the business is in trouble. Also, where a business is wound up, they are likely to be repaid the par or nominal value of shares ahead of ordinary shareholders.
Cumulative preference shares give holders the right that, if a dividend cannot be paid one year, it will be carried forward to successive years. Dividends on cumulative preference shares must be paid, despite the earning levels of the business.
Redeemable shares come with an agreement that the company can buy them back at a future date - this can be at a fixed date or at the choice of the business. A company cannot issue only redeemable shares.
March 16, 1830, when only 31 shares traded.
Cumulative shares are when the shares are combined and then evenly distributed to the share holders. Non cumulative preference shares are when they go to certain people first.
The first time somebody bought or traded something on credit, and said "I'll owe ya the rest."
This is the daily number of shares of a security that change hands between a buyer and a seller. Also known as volume traded. Also see Up volume and Down volume.
The stock exchange index is a relative measure of the performance of all or a number of stocks that are traded on a stock exchange. it incorporates the return on stocks, their volumes traded and the shares outstanding. there can be a number of indices relating to a single stock exchange that incorporates the returns on a number of companies. they can also be differentiated on the basis of the return on different industries.
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Shares traded. This is the number of shares sold for the day, expressed in hundreds.
The aboriginals actually traded gold with the miners
Yes, but they can't be traded to the public.
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It isn't traded on the stockmarket - only stocks and shares are traded on the stockmarket.
One who's shares are traded on the stock market.
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On the stock market
Scripless trading is a term used to describe a procedure of trading in shares, where actual share certificates are not traded but shares are traded in electronic forms, the share traded being adjusted by accounting by an organisation known as depository.
Equity market is where shares of companies are traded.
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