Forms of Stocks---The Volkers Group, LLC.


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Kinds of Stock

Common Stock

The most widely issued form of stock. Individuals purchase common stock over exchanges in the secondary market. Typically, common stock bears voting rights for its owners, but receive dividends only after preferred stockholders receive theirs.

Preferred Stock

Issued as non-voting stock. Preferred stock holders generally receive some sort of periodic dividend before any common stock holders can receive theirs. This also applies to rights of owenership in the event of liquidation of company assets.

Convertible Stock

A security which comes with a feature that allows the owner to exchange the security for shares of a different kind of security.

Examples:

convertible bonds => preferred stock
convertible preferred => common stock
convertible bonds => common stock