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  • plural of stock.
  • present tense form of stock (3rd person singular).
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stocks

NOUN
holdings
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When picking stocks, Tom Winmill looks for five years of increasing free cash flow per share and five years of increasing revenue per share.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026

By Friday, the stocks were on pace for historically poor weeks.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026

James Harlow, director of research at Novare Capital Management in Charlotte, N.C., only buys stocks in companies that have raised their dividends for 10 years in a row.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026

That jump in the VIX potentially triggered a group of funds known as volatility-control funds, which tend to make buying and selling decisions based on the level of turbulence in markets, to start dumping stocks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

“All in solid, safe blue-chip stocks and government bonds.”

From "Lawn Boy" by Gary Paulsen


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