Equity securities

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single unit of ownership in a corporation, mutual fund, or any other organization

form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth potential or demonstrated high growth

security that entitles the holder to buy stock

type of stock which may have any combination of features not possessed by common stock

Stocks (also capital stock, or sometimes interchangeably, shares) consist of all the shares by which ownership of a corporation or company is divided. A single share of the stock means fractional ownership of the corporation in proportion to the total number of shares. This typically entitles the shareholder (stockholder) to that fraction of the company's earnings, proceeds from liquidation of assets (after discharge of all senior claims such as secured and unsecured debt), or voting power, often dividing these up in proportion to the number of like shares each stockholder owns. Not all stock

form of corporate equity ownership; a type of security

security representing ownership of an underlying number of shares of a foreign company

capital increase

stock with registration of the stockholder in a stock register

stock value decrease of a company

investment fund for the asset of stocks

"class" of common or preferred stock that typically has strengthened voting rights or other benefits

asset with artificially high value

Accounting standard