Capital stock is the number of common and preferred shares that a company is authorized to issue, and is recorded in shareholders' equity.

Noncumulative preferred stock doesn't entitle investors to unpaid or omitted dividends. Learn about this unique stock type ...

The stock market is a part of most everyone’s daily life to some degree or another. Even if it’s just getting a daily update on the Dow Jones on the television news, it’s there. And for a significant ...

A stock-for-stock merger occurs when shares of one company are traded for another during an acquisition. Shareholders can trade the shares of the target company for shares in the acquiring firm's ...