SIE FLASHCARD
Common stock - Answer✔️
✔️Represents ownership in a company with potential for growth or income
Preferred stock - Answer✔️
✔️Represents ownership with seniority and pays fixed dividends
Rights - Answer✔️
✔️Allow shareholders to maintain ownership proportion when the company issues
more shares
Warrants - Answer✔️
✔️Give investors the ability to purchase stock at a fixed price for a set period
American depositary receipts (ADRs) - Answer✔️
✔️Facilitate the trading of foreign common stock in the
US
Dividends - Answer✔️
✔️Distributions of company profits to shareholders
Ex-dividend date - Answer✔️
✔️The first date an investor buying stock will not receive the dividend
Stock split - Answer✔️
✔️An artificial adjustment of stock price and number of shares
Short sale - Answer✔️
✔️A transaction where an investor sells borrowed shares, expecting a price
decline
Authorized stock - Answer✔️
✔️Stock issued to the public by a company
Common stock - Answer✔️
✔️Represents ownership in a company with potential for growth or income
Preferred stock - Answer✔️
✔️Represents ownership with seniority and pays fixed dividends
Rights - Answer✔️
✔️Allow shareholders to maintain ownership proportion when the company issues
more shares
Warrants - Answer✔️
✔️Give investors the ability to purchase stock at a fixed price for a set period
American depositary receipts (ADRs) - Answer✔️
✔️Facilitate the trading of foreign common stock in the
US
Dividends - Answer✔️
✔️Distributions of company profits to shareholders
Ex-dividend date - Answer✔️
✔️The first date an investor buying stock will not receive the dividend
Stock split - Answer✔️
✔️An artificial adjustment of stock price and number of shares
Short sale - Answer✔️
✔️A transaction where an investor sells borrowed shares, expecting a price
decline
Authorized stock - Answer✔️
✔️Stock issued to the public by a company
