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Lecture Finance - Topic 4: Common stock basics. This chapter presents the following content: Features of common stock, determining common stock values, efficient markets, preferred stock. | Common Stock Basics 1. Definition: Stocks are A type of security that signifies ownership in a corporation and represents a claim on part of the corporations assets and earnings. 2. Types: Common Stock (usually entitles the owner to vote at shareholders meetings and to receive dividends). Preferred (generally does not have voting rights, but has a higher claim on assets and earnings than the common shares). Class A: A classification of common stock that may be accompanied by more voting rights. Class B: a classification of common stock that usually does not have as many or may not have any voting rights to elect officers to the Board of Directors of a Corporation. 3. Represents OWNERSHIP in the Corporation. Professor James Kuhle, Ph.D. 8/5/2015 Professor James Kuhle, Ph.D. 2 Common Stock Basics 4. Owners are also referred to as shareholders or equity owners. 5. Street name: A brokerage account where the customers securities and assets are held in the name of the brokerage firm, . | Common Stock Basics 1. Definition: Stocks are A type of security that signifies ownership in a corporation and represents a claim on part of the corporations assets and earnings. 2. Types: Common Stock (usually entitles the owner to vote at shareholders meetings and to receive dividends). Preferred (generally does not have voting rights, but has a higher claim on assets and earnings than the common shares). Class A: A classification of common stock that may be accompanied by more voting rights. Class B: a classification of common stock that usually does not have as many or may not have any voting rights to elect officers to the Board of Directors of a Corporation. 3. Represents OWNERSHIP in the Corporation. Professor James Kuhle, Ph.D. 8/5/2015 Professor James Kuhle, Ph.D. 2 Common Stock Basics 4. Owners are also referred to as shareholders or equity owners. 5. Street name: A brokerage account where the customers securities and assets are held in the name of the brokerage firm, rather than you holding the stock certificate yourself. The customer is still listed as the real or beneficial owner. 6. Board of Directors: A group of individuals that are elected as, or elected to act as, representatives of the stockholders to establish corporate management related policies and to make decisions on major company issues. Such issues include the hiring/firing of executives, dividend policies, options policies and executive compensation. Every public company must have a Board of Directors. 8/5/2015 Professor James Kuhle, Ph.D. 3 Common Stock Basics 7. Dividends. Distribution of a portion of a companys earnings, decided by the board of directors, to a class of its shareholders. The dividend is most often quoted in terms of the dollar amount each share receives (i.e. dividends per share or DPS). It can also be quoted in terms of a percent of the current market price, referred to as dividend yield. Dividends may be in the form of cash, stock or property. Most secure and .
