check a shares website
it could tell you company profits, shares and debts!
Currently the company has 5,052,338,040 shares outstanding and 10,000,000,000 authorized.
Issued shares(I) are shares of stock that have been sold to investors. It includes both outstanding shares(O) and Treasury shares(T). Thus, I = O+T Outstanding shares(O) are shares of stock currently owned by the shareholders.
As of the 2012 Annual Report, 11,000 million were authorized, and 3,418 million were outstanding.
Outstanding capital refers to the number of shares that remain with the stockholders. This is the result of issued shared minus treasury shares and the dividends are paid based on these shares.
Issued Shares Authorized Shares = Issued Shares (sold to investors) + Unissued Shares Issued Shares = Outstanding Stock (held by investors) + Treasury Stock (stock bought back by company)
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Number of shares held by investors for a company. For instance, if a company goes public and issues 100,000 shares, then the number of shares outstanding is 100,000. This number can be found on the balance sheet of a company!
A 'share buy back' is the main option in which a company can reduce the amount of outstanding shares. A company will purchase shares on the open market or work out a deal to buy shares from individual holders, and then retire the shares.
SEC Form 10-k, which all public companies must file, shows the number of outstanding shares.
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Weighted average number of shares = shares outstanding at start of year + shares at end of year / 2