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common stock

NOUN
investment representing fractional ownership of a company
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Not quite two years later, the company’s IPO covered three million shares of common stock at $18 a share.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

The fund itself will repurchase another $300 million of common stock in the open market.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

For its next quarterly payout, Apollo upped its common stock dividend to 56 cents a share, from 51 cents in recent quarters.

From Barron's • May 7, 2026

Tesla last week registered almost 303.4 million shares of common stock, which were awarded to Musk under the terms of the 2018 plan.

From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026

Having once accepted the principle that the present-day species have descended from very unlike ancestors, it was easy to assume that all organic nature had descended from one common stock.

From Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy by Widtsoe, John Andreas



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