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/kˈæpətəl stɑk/ Listen

Capital stock

noun

The maximum number of shares authorized under the terms of a corporation's articles of incorporation. Synonyms: authorized shares, authorized stock.

The book value of the outstanding shares of a corporation.

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"Capital stock" Quotes from Famous Books

... of spirit. Though the Gordon holdings in the company, increased from time to time as the iron-master had prospered, amounted to a little more than a third of the capital stock, everything had been done secretly. The general manager's own notice of the shut-down had come in the posted "Notice to Employees." When the Farleys should leave, he would be utterly helpless; on their return they could repudiate everything he might do in their absence. ...

— The Quickening • Francis Lynde

... membership of seventy-eight. The numbers, powers, and influence on the policy of the company of these chambers were in proportion to the wealth of the cities they represented and to the amount of the stock subscribed from these cities. The Amsterdam chamber, which was to subscribe one-half the capital stock, was far the most influential and had the largest number of directors; after it in order came the chambers of Zealand, of the cities on the Meuse, of the cities of North Holland, and of the cities of Friesland and Groningen. These local boards ...

— European Background Of American History - (Vol. I of The American Nation: A History) • Edward Potts Cheyney

... with the right to renew. That it shall secure and control at least five thousand acres of land, to more readily enable it to dominate the township, as the lowest political unit of the republic; and also to give room for the planting of suitable forests. That its capital stock be limited to one thousand shares, to be divided equally among five hundred co-operators, composed of two hundred and fifty couples or families. That at the end of five years the stock be issued to the subscribers ...

— Solaris Farm - A Story of the Twentieth Century • Milan C. Edson

... Korea, one of the world's most centrally planned and isolated economies, faces desperate economic conditions. Industrial capital stock is nearly beyond repair as a result of years of underinvestment and spare parts shortages. Industrial and power output have declined in parallel. The nation has suffered its tenth year of food shortages because ...

— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... services of her little mistress in a more substantial manner than that of merely dancing about her, for she brought forth young lambs: those lambs grew up, and brought forth others; so that, within the space of a few years, Flora had a very capital stock, that furnished the whole family with food and raiment. Such, my little readers, are the rewards which Providence bestows on acts ...

— The Looking-Glass for the Mind - or Intellectual Mirror • M. Berquin

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