Chapter 12 terms
Terms
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- Stockholders
- owners of a corporation
- dividends
- part of the corporations profits paid to stockholders
- capital gain
- an increase in value of the stock
- common stock
- a type of stock that pays a variable dividend and gives the holder voting rights
- proxy
- a stockholders written authorization to transfer their rights to someone else
- preferred stock
- payes a fixed dividend and offers no voting rights
- income stocks
- stocks that have a history of paying high dividends
- growth stocks
- stocks that reinvent their profits into the business so that it can grow
- blue chips stocks
- stocks of a large corporation with a solid record of profitability
- Par value
- dollar value
- market value
- the price of which a stock is bought and sold
- earnings per share
- EPS
- bull market
- a prolonged period of rising stocks
- bear market
- a prolonged period of falling stocks
- short selling
- selling a stock borrowed from a broker that must be replaced later in time
- stock split
- an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a companies stock
- direct investment
- buying stock directly from a corporation