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What is the difference between share and stock?

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Share - used to denote ownership.

magnumxc... Stock - used to denote more than one unit (quantitative vs qualitative).
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STOCK represents a share of ownership in a corporation.Stock typically take the

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companies, each new equity issue can have legal clauses attached to it that make it
dynamically different from the more general cases. Some shares of common stock
may be issued without the typical voting rights be included, for instance. Or some
shares may have special rights unique to them and issued only to certain parties.
These case by case variations in the specific form of stock issuance is beyond the
scope of this article, except to note that not all equity shares are the same.

SHARE is a unit of account for various financial instruments including stocks, mutual
funds, limited partnerships, and REIT's. In British English, use of the word shares in

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the plural to refer to stock is so common that it almost replaces the word stock itself.
And especially in American English, the plural stocks is widely used instead of
shares, in other words to refer to the stock (or perhaps originally stock certificates) of
even a single company. Traditionalist demands that the plural stocks be used to
refer only to stock of more than one company are rarely heard nowadays.

The income received from shares is called a dividend, and a person who owns
shares is called a shareholder.

A share is one of a finite number of equal portions in the capital of a company,

entitling the owner to a proportion of distributed, non-reinvested profits known as
dividends and to a portion of the value of the company in case of liquidation. Shares
can be voting or non-voting, meaning they either do or do not carry the right to vote
on the board of directors and corporate policy. Whether this right exists often affects
the value of the share. Voting and Non-Voting shares are also known as Class A
and B shares.
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This question is about bonds.

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Stocks (or Shares)
Stocks (or Shares) are paper certificates representing ownership in a business.
Therefore, if a company has issued 1 million shares and an investor owns 1 share
only, he is a part owner (or shareholder) of the company. Stocks or shares are
represented in the equity segment of the balance sheet. A stock certificate is
perpetuity, i.e., it lasts as long as the company does. Shareholders have a residual
claim (last claim) on whatever net income (or profit) and assets are left over after the
bondholders have been fully paid off. It is the most common source of raising funds

Difference between Shares & Bonds:

The main difference between shares and bonds is that shares are representation of
ownership in a company while bonds are not representative of ownership.
The second difference is that shares last as long as the company lasts where as
bonds have limited life.
Another difference is that the return on a bond is predetermined, i.e., the investor
knows in advance how much return he would get from a bond. However, a
stockholder cannot be certain about the return on a stock investment, since the
dividends may or may not be paid in a certain year or the percentage of dividends
announced may vary.
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Every Joint Stock Company has Share Capital, divided into Shares of various
denominations.There can be only two types of Shares in Indian Companies
according to Indian Companies Act,1956. ..viz, Equity and Preference shares.
When Shares are fully paid up i.e.; full amount due against each share has been
bikashro... received by a Company, the Company may convert the Shares into Stock.In that
case, the shareholders will be asked to surrender their shares and receive Stock
certificates from the Company.Say , you hold Shares of rs.100 each numbering
1,000 of these.When you surrender your fully paid Shares to the Company which
decided to convert its Shares into stock , you will receive Stock Certificate of
Rs.1,00,000.From now on you can sell or buy any amount (in terms of rupees )
Stock of such a company and question of buying or selling "any number of shares
doesn't arise from now on'."OK?

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