What is "common stocks"

Usage examples of "common stocks".

What is more interesting is this prophet's listing of common stocks that he thought would do well in the years ahead.

To be suddenly hoisted, naked and gory, from the common stocks to the Alpine altitude and splendor of an earldom, seemed to him the last possibility in the line of the grotesque.

I decided to hang onto my Hired Girl stock and put the cash into other common stocks, with a special eye to some trends I thought would grow.

I was wondering how much money I had made and was congratulating myself on having plunged in common stocks rather than playing it “.

By order of the Minister for the Department of Agriculture this Disaster Recovery Center has been established to ensure the availability of pure stock for the replanting of food crops after unspecified destruction of common stocks.

The ownership of each entity was tangled in common stocks, preferred stocks, bonds, senior and junior issues, securities with odd names and unknown functions.

Nyquist had all the definitions beautifully arranged: common stocks and preferred, shores and longs, puts and calls, debentures, convertibles, capital gains, special situations, closed-end versus open-end funds, secondary offerings, specialists and what they do, the over-the-counter market, the Dow-Jones averages, point-and-figure charts, and everything else.

And not just a few pennies invested in common stocks, but a serious position in a major company.