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Preferred stock (also called preferred shares, preference shares, or simply preferreds) is a component of share capital that may have any combination of features not possessed by common stock, including properties of both an equity and a debt instrument, and is generally considered a hybrid instrument.
Data from different twenty-year periods is color-coded as shown in the key. Shiller states that this plot "confirms that long-term investors—investors who commit their money to an investment for ten full years—did do well when prices were low relative to earnings at the beginning of the ten years.
Stocks (also capital stock, or sometimes interchangeably, shares) consist of all the shares [a] by which ownership of a corporation or company is divided. [1] A single share of the stock means fractional ownership of the corporation in proportion to the total number of shares.
From January 2008 to January 2011, if you bought shares in companies when Roy S. Roberts joined the board, and sold them when she left, you would have a -14.9 percent return on your investment, compared to a -13.4 percent return from the S&P 500.
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Steven R. Rogel joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -2.4 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Gerald L. Shaheen joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 92.0 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
Thus, a stock refers to the value of an asset at a balance date (or point in time), while a flow refers to the total value of transactions (sales or purchases, incomes or expenditures) during an accounting period.
A share certificate from 1936 entitling the holder to shares in Greyhound Lines. In financial markets, a share (sometimes referred to as stock or equity) is a unit of equity ownership in the capital stock of a corporation.