Ninety five percent of all transactions are regular. Stocks provide the means for a corporation to raise money. A stock in a business is a certificate that represents shares of ownership in a corporation. Certificates entitle them to shares in the profits of the company, which are paid out at intervals, in the form of dividends. Stocks are generally negotiable.
Stockholders have the right to assign or transfer their shares to another individual.
Earning or gaining can be greater with common than preferred. Holders of common stock have the last claim of the earnings and assets of a company can receive dividends only at the discretion of the company s board of directors, after all other claims on profits have been satisfied. Dividends and equality conferred by common stocks have no dollar value. It benefits more from a company s prosperity or loses more from a company s adversity than do holders of preferred stocks. A stock book is where the purchasers name is usually entered in which the purchasers are stockholders of record.