common stock
Americannoun
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stock that ordinarily has no preference in the matter of dividends or assets and represents the residual ownership of a corporate business.
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Animal Husbandry. stock that is not purebred.
noun
Etymology
Origin of common stock
First recorded in 1840–50
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Trian owns around 16.3% of Wendy’s common stock.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
Anthropic unveils a new Class F common stock in its IPO prospectus, giving its seven co-founders majority control of the AI company.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
Musk holds a 48.4% equity stake in SpaceX, which represents approximately 6.42 billion shares across common stock, options and unvested performance awards, according to an August SEC filing.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Summit said Monday that AstraZeneca will buy $2 billion of convertible preferred shares, representing a common stock price of $18.36 a share, a 10% premium to the stocks’ five-day volume-weighted average price.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
It may be exceedingly difficult to fill up the line of progress, or trace the causes in operation, which could favor the conclusion that all the insects named have sprung from a common stock.
From The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 by Henry Calderwood
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