common stock

noun

1. stock that ordinarily has no preference in the matter of dividends or assets and represents the residual ownership of a corporate business.
2. Animal Husbandry. stock that is not purebred.

common stock

noun

1. See ordinary shares
   the US name for ordinary shares

Word History and Origins

Origin of common stock¹

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

Under the circumstances, we caution you against investing in our class A common stock, unless you are prepared to incur the risk of losing all or a substantial portion of your investment.

From Washington Post

Its pro forma results presume that “all shares of our convertible preferred stock had automatically converted” into different types of common stock.

From TechCrunch

Semrush on Monday announced it is planning on going public through an initial public offering of its Class A common stock.

From Search Engine Land

Our last share count did not take into its confines “any shares of Class A common stock issuable in exchange for as-converted Incentive Units or upon settlement of certain other interests.”

From TechCrunch

Tesla is taking advantage of its surging shares by going back to the capital markets for the third time in ten months and raising as much as $5 billion of common stock.

From Fortune

On July 31 the 150-store chain sold 18.5 million shares of common stock to the public at $18 a share.

From The Daily Beast

The company announced it would sell 2.7 million shares of common stock, plus $450 million of debt, in the former of senior notes.

From The Daily Beast

Are not these legitimate investments in the common stock of the nation, which should command a proportionate interest?

From Project Gutenberg

The Sultan of Turkey sent a generous contribution to the common stock of relief.

From Project Gutenberg

This quantity was thrown into common stock, and boiled with the meat, into a kind of soup.

From Project Gutenberg

They held their property in one common stock, for the benefit of the whole.

From Project Gutenberg

Among the common stock were big white beasts of pedigree which were Wesley's pride at county fairs.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• common shares
• ordinary shares