Stock

What is Stock and What Does it Mean to Own Stock?

Stock represents an equity ownership in an entity, and normally, with certain exceptions, is given in exchange for a paid-in capital contribution to a business.  Ownership of stock does not entitle the holder to specific property or assets of the company, but, rather, provides the holder with a share of the entity’s profits and gains, [...]

Posted by Brett Melson on Monday, December 17th, 2012
Posted in Q&A, Stock
Tags: Question and Answer, Stock

Stock Split

I was recently thumbing through my USA TODAY app on my iPad and came across a great article called, Investors seem to love stock splits, but do they matter?” Many companies that do a stock split are doing it to attract investors in to their company and many investors love the idea that they will [...]

Posted by Michael Bell on Monday, August 20th, 2012
Posted in Articles of Interest, Stock
Tags: Articles of Interest, Stock

Green Bay Packers Offer Stock

When thinking of purchasing stock, most people think about making money, return on investment, and profit.  With Green Bay fans and supporters, it is a little bit different.  They bought stock to support the organization, be a part of something they love, and be a piece of the team that they follow all season long. In December [...]

Posted by Devin Scott on Monday, June 11th, 2012
Posted in Stock
Tags: Stock

Authorizing Shares for Your Delaware Corporation

Back in February, our chairman wrote one of his first blog articles on shares of stock entitled, Demystifying Stock. In it he defines “Stock” and some of the terms commonly associated with stock, like Authorized Shares. Reading his article should give you a better understanding of the definition of stock, but it may still leave [...]

Posted by Paul Sponaugle on Friday, July 31st, 2009
Posted in INC Knowledge, Stock
Tags: Delaware, Stock

Non-Stock, Non-Profit, No Stock……what difference does it make?

Over time, the Non-Stock Corporation has pretty much become synonymous with the term Non-Profit. The common use of the Non-Stock Corporation as the vehicle to obtain tax-exempt or Non-Profit status from the IRS has led to an “interchange-ability” of the two terms, but not without its faults. The notion that the two are equal has [...]

Posted by Paul Sponaugle on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Posted in 101, Stock
Tags: Delaware, Non-Profit, Non-Stock, Stock

101: Preferred Stock

Every Delaware General Corporation must have one class of common stock, but it can have more than one class of stock, with different rules for the different classes. The most popular second class of stock is called “preferred stock” because it contains terms that are preferred over the rights of common stockholders. Delaware’s brand of [...]

Posted by Rick Bell on Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Posted in 101, General Corporation, INC Knowledge, Stock
Tags: Delaware, General Corporation, Preferred Stock, Stock

Demystifying Stock

Stock sounds like a substantial word, doesn’t it? It reminds one of livestock (cattle) or rolling stock (rail cars), or stock-in-trade (physical inventory), but it is none of these. Shares of Stock in a company are worth just about whatever you can get for them, and that can fluctuate, as we’ve all experienced watching the [...]

Posted by Rick Bell on Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
Posted in Stock
Tags: Shares, Stock